Bat inspections

[Drayton tree care]

Hi guys. Just wondering I you need to do a course for bat inspections as it seems to be a very specialist subject and a service which I would like to be able to offer.

 

Any help or advice would be great

 

cheers

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

If your lucky there is "best avaliable" course run by geoff billington at the end of this month, a 3 day training event, maybe there are still places? try him at

 

[email protected]

 

If your going down this route get some rabies shots, £40 pound a shot x 3 over three weeks. painless.

 

Bats in Woodlands Course booking form 2010.doc

 

Bats in Woodlands Course flyer 2010.pdf

[Drayton tree care]

thanks thats really helpfull. i cant do this month though unfortunately do they run these courses regularly and is it worth investing in, ie will i get a return from doing inspections

 

thanks

 

ben

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have no idea, as this is my first venture into bat territory, though i am reliably informed it is highly addictive.

 

if money is your primary concern rather than learning and gaining a skill, and insight into a crucial aspect of arboriculture, I suggest you look to accountancy or law!

[Badgermert]

Bats and trees are very addictive. The Bat Conservation Trust has a section that lists courses and workshops that are running around the country. The one day Arboriculture and Bats - a guide for Practitioners should wet your whistle.

[Drayton tree care]

I have no idea, as this is my first venture into bat territory, though i am reliably informed it is highly addictive.

 

if money is your primary concern rather than learning and gaining a skill, and insight into a crucial aspect of arboriculture, I suggest you look to accountancy or law!

 

I appreciate what your saying and I'm very interested in learning other aspects of arboriculture but I am also running a business which wouldn't work if I invest money that doesn't make a return!!

[caledonian bob]

Go and do the BCT course, I've done it, very interesting.

[Doug Blease]

As far as I understand it, you have to be a fully licensed Batworker in order to make invasive Bat surveys. (i.e. Climbing and using endoscopes to identify roosts.) You do not need a license to carry out activity surveys of trees and buildings. (i.e. Using a Bat Detector to identify foraging and commuting bats, and potential roost sites if your lucky.)

 

Its quite a long drawn out process to become a licensed Batworker. I have said this before to people on ArbTalk. First step is to join your local Bat group.

[benedmonds]

I think your going to struggle if you want to get into bats for the financial rewards. I might be wrong but I doubt any one is getting rich doing bat surveys and there is alot of time and effort required before you can do them. At the moment licencing is dominated by volunteers who often don't trust tree workers... It does appear to becoming more profesional but I think you've got to be into bats..

 

BCT send me an email, last month:

 

"We would like to draw your attention to our new course that we are running in the near future:

 

Arboriculture and Bats: How To Use A Fibrescope

 

Nettlecombe Court FSC Centre, Somerset, Thursday 22/4/10.

 

This new course seeks to provide participants with practical skills and methods to look for evidence of bats, including the use of fibrescopes. Please see the attached information for further details. It is designed as a follow up to our Arboriculture and Bats: A Guide For Practitioners course and priority will be given to those who have already attended this course.

 

Places are limited so if you are interested please send in your completed booking form asap.

 

If you have any further questions please give me a call on the details at the bottom of this email.

 

 

In addition we still have places available on the following courses

 

Arboriculture and Bats, Juniper Hall, Surrey, 8/4/10

Bats and Bat Surveys, Juniper Hall, Surrey, 12-14/4/10

Arboriculture and Bats, Plas Tan y Bwlch, Gwynedd, 4/5/10

Arboriculture and Bats, Scottish Churches House, Perthshire, 10/5/10

Planning and Preparation of Bat Surveys, Juniper Hall, Surrey, 17/5/10

Surveying Buildings, Juniper Hall, Surrey, 18-19/5/10

Bats and Bat Surveys, Nettlecombe Court, Somerset, 2-4/6/10

 

If you would like to attend any of these please complete and send in the booking form. If you’d like any further details please give me a call or have a look at the training pages on our website (Bat Conservation Trust).

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Dave Sutton

Training and Events Administrator

Bat Conservation Trust

15 Cloisters House, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BG

Tel +44 (0) 20 7501 3638

www.bats.org.uk"

[veners]

We recently worked on a conservation project that required bat inspection prior to works and the guys that carried out the assessment were from coventry, charged around the £500 - £600 per day mark for full climbing inspections and a team of two were averaging 12 - 15 trees per day, bearing in mind they were on this job for over a week and said they were booked for the next month there may be some financial reward for expert advice in this area.