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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Gardening for bats with Joel Ashton

Gardening for bats with Joel Ashton

S2E13 Remember seeing bats over your garden years ago and suddenly realised that they've vanished over time? Wildlife garden landscaper Joel Ashton reveals how you can help attract bats to your greens...

11 Marras 202034min

Chris Packham

Chris Packham

S2E14 A camping trip in the New Forest was the first sighting of bats that broadcaster, naturalist and writer Chris Packham had. He became the president of the Bat Conservation Trust in 2006 and in th...

28 Loka 202040min

Bats & Coronavirus

Bats & Coronavirus

S1E13 In this bonus episode recorded during the UK lockdown, we have two guests on the show. Tom August is a scientist based at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Lisa Worledge is Head of Con...

7 Touko 202035min

Bat Care

Bat Care

S1E12 This week we have two guests on the show. Hannah Van Hesteren is one of the Helpline Managers at the Bat Conservation Trust. She talks to Steve about the vital work the Helpline does each summer...

1 Huhti 202026min

Bats and Trees with Jim Mullholland

Bats and Trees with Jim Mullholland

S1E11 Despite a number of our bats using trees as roost sites, we know surprisingly little about how bats use trees. In this episode Steve sits down with veteran tree expert Jim Mullholland from the A...

18 Maalis 202021min

Life as an Island Bat Group

Life as an Island Bat Group

S1E10 The British Isles have a large number of islands around its coasts and some of these have bat groups. In this episode Steve discusses the challenges of being an isolated voluntary group with Car...

4 Maalis 202024min

A Churnet Chiroptera Conundrum

A Churnet Chiroptera Conundrum

S1E9 Steve heads to the Churnet valley in north Staffordshire to join Staffordshire Bat Group members Helen Ball and David Nixon for the day. Helen explains how a colony of Brandt's bats in one of the...

19 Helmi 202016min

James Shipman

James Shipman

S1E8 James has been involved in bat conservation since 2010 and has been involved in a variety of projects in that time including setting up Gib-Bats (the Gibraltar Bats Project) in 2013. In 2016 he w...

5 Helmi 202012min

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