Peter Burgess
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Heard this today. The link above will allow you to hear it yourself for a couple of days.
It featured George Hall talking about mining around Cader Idris, and a recording of a visit to a secret mine level by a Bat Person to count 'extremely rare lesser horseshoe bats'. The level was also home to otters, and the programme relates how they found evidence that at one location the otters, a protected species, are eating the hibernating bats, another protected species. They worked this out by analysing the otter spraints.To hear how the two in the programme tippie-toed along the mine level, speaking in hushed tones like walking on eggshells, compared to how I've witnessed bat monitoring folk going about their business was a bit puzzling. The programme stated that this year bat counts are definitely down, and it is put down to the warm winter.
Listen to it while you can. It was a repeat of Saturday's programme, so it won't be on line after tomorrow, I suspect.
Heard this today. The link above will allow you to hear it yourself for a couple of days.
It featured George Hall talking about mining around Cader Idris, and a recording of a visit to a secret mine level by a Bat Person to count 'extremely rare lesser horseshoe bats'. The level was also home to otters, and the programme relates how they found evidence that at one location the otters, a protected species, are eating the hibernating bats, another protected species. They worked this out by analysing the otter spraints.To hear how the two in the programme tippie-toed along the mine level, speaking in hushed tones like walking on eggshells, compared to how I've witnessed bat monitoring folk going about their business was a bit puzzling. The programme stated that this year bat counts are definitely down, and it is put down to the warm winter.
Listen to it while you can. It was a repeat of Saturday's programme, so it won't be on line after tomorrow, I suspect.