The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales
BatChat3 Joulu 2025

The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales

North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round. In this episode we chat to Dave Anderson and Dave Fisher who on Friday afternoons, in a term they've coined as Fieldwork Fridays, they spend 90 minutes surveying the kiln for bats. And they've racked up an impressive collection of data in studying bat behaviour such as crevice fidelity. We also address the challenge of balancing p...

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Bats at RHS Wisley

Bats at RHS Wisley

S3E30 This week Steve is in Surrey at RHS Garden Wisley with Principal Entomologist Dr Andrew Salisbury. Andrew sits down with Steve in the brand new wildlife garden outside their new laboratory build...

26 Tammi 202221min

A bat call library with Martyn Cooke

A bat call library with Martyn Cooke

S3E29 This week Steve joins Martyn Cooke outside a holiday cottage in Staffordshire as they set up a matrix of bat detectors to record the sound of Brandt's bats emerging from their roost before flyin...

12 Tammi 202224min

Jon Russ

Jon Russ

S3E28 This week Steve is joined in a Derbyshire churchyard by Jon Russ who is an expert on bat echolocation calls. They discuss how Jon got into studying bat calls, his latest book on the subject and ...

29 Joulu 202131min

Bats with Altitude - Rich Flight

Bats with Altitude - Rich Flight

S3E27 This week Steve is in the Lake District National Park with Ecologist and Chair of south Cumbria Bat Group Rich Flight. Rich published the findings of a study called "Bats with Altitude" in the j...

15 Joulu 202138min

Children's books with Emma Reynolds

Children's books with Emma Reynolds

S3E26 This week Steve is at Chorlton Water Park Nature Reserve in Manchester with author and illustrator Emma Reynolds. Emma's debut author-illustrator book "Amara and the Bats" was published here in ...

1 Joulu 202122min

Barbastelles at Paston Great Barn

Barbastelles at Paston Great Barn

S3E25 This week Steve is on the Norfolk coastline in the East of England visiting Jane Harris from the Norfolk barbastelle study group. Paston Great Barn dates back to 1581. It’s a huge thatched barn ...

17 Marras 202127min

Gareth Jones - A lifetime of research

Gareth Jones - A lifetime of research

S3E24 BatChat is back for a third series! Steve is on the roof of the biological sciences building with Professor Gareth Jones where he talks to Steve about just some of the research he has undertaken...

3 Marras 202141min

We're back with Season 3!

We're back with Season 3!

Hello everyone it’s Steve here from BatChat here to tell you that a brand new series is going to be along on Wednesday. I know it’s been a long wait since the last series but we’ve been working really...

27 Loka 20213min

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