Bat survey work

[Harps]

Arbdog, that's the experience I'm looking for! Just need to hunt down the right people, seems like a secret handshake kind of world at the moment!!!

[Harps]

Woody Paul, that's invaluable knowledge, usually costs a couple hundred pounds for a course! I'll hopefully get lucky and have a similar day like that

[timberbear]

Hi Harps, what part of South Wales are you. I do a number of inspections but there few and far between. I've got a mate who runs an ecology company. He's very busy on the bat front especially with spring coming up. I could ask him but he's in Monmouthshire area.

[Harps]

I'll mp you now timber bear

[drinksloe]

1 of the last meeting i went to they were wanting to prosecute some farmer for cutting a tree down and phoning up the bat group to ask wot u do with a couple of bats he found, not sure if dead or hibernating.

 

The way legislation is at moment doing more harm than good, i'm involved with setting up a wee nature reserve, but will not be making any bat habitat or putting up any boxes just because they're such a PITA if u encourage them and then wot to manage the tree there in.

If u follow the rules ur off ur head to stick any semi permanet boxes up, atleast with homemade untreated timber ones they will rot fairly quickly and tree/box no longer protected

[_Andy]

If bats are thought to be found within a dead tree that is potentially dangerous, which takes priority? The bats or the removal of the tree!

 

Many thanks

[Pete Hart]

If bats are thought to be found within a dead tree that is potentially dangerous, which takes priority? The bats or the removal of the tree!

 

Many thanks

 

Interesting point.

[Paul Melarange]

If bats are thought to be found within a dead tree that is potentially dangerous, which takes priority? The bats or the removal of the tree!

 

Many thanks

 

If the tree poses an unacceptable risk to people then works to make the tree safe take priority. However, if possible, a licensed bat worker should be consulted prior to the works being undertaken. It might be that limbs or tree parts containing potential bat roost features can be carefully lowered and relocated.

[Paul Melarange]

Hopefully attached to this post is a PDF of Annex D: Emergency Operations and Protected Species. This should answer the question.

Annex D.pdf

[_Andy]

Thanks Paul