Bat Hibernation

[whitelackington]

Good Question

 

[whitelackington]

M.E.T. Office reports that 2006 is on course to be The U.K.'s warmest recorded year.
No snow in Lapland yet.

 

[whitelackington]

Just been for a cycle ride, around the villages around bracknell, I got a puncture
just as it got dark and i was pushing my bike two bats were rappidly zooming about, they were feeding, obviously as it is soooo warm! :halo:

 

[gus horsley]

It's official - 2006 is the warmest year since records began.

 

[Les W]

It's official - 2006 is the warmest year since records began.

Which is actually quite a long time - several hundreds of years. 

 

[cap n chris]

Brilliant! Can we now lobby the government NOT to tax us extra to try and make everyone reverse the weather back to being crappy and cold again!

 

[Les W]

Brilliant! Can we now lobby the government NOT to tax us extra to try and make everyone reverse the weather back to being crappy and cold again!

Worth a try 

Extra bonus is that global warming means the flatlanders will have to relocate to somewhere higher (but not on Mendip, this is a local hill for local people  )

Serves them right for living at or below sea level 

 

[cap n chris]

Doesn't that mean Hughie will end up farming rice in paddy fields?

 

[graham]

Doesn't that mean Hughie will end up farming rice in paddy fields?

Potatoes? 

 

[Les W]

Doesn't that mean Hughie will end up farming rice in paddy fields?

He could buy some wellingtons for his cows. 

There might be an EU subsidy for that too 

 

[Elaine]

It is wet enough here to do that already. Very windy today, we thought maybe a wind farm.

 

[cap n chris]

Diversify and open a wind surfing centre?

 

[whitelackington]

If it happened consistantly over the next few years and the bats dont hibernate (or torp) could this affect access to certain caves?

Well IMHO it should.
I like bats
& I do not belive most cavers cause them any disturbance

but bat people, they cause me disturbance :icon_321:

 

[whitelackington]

Went for a walk with a friend who is well in to bird watching, apparently most bats are not kipping this winter, they are carrying on like it is Autumn or Spring
ie not torporing just shagging and hunting

 

[Peter Burgess]

Well, they are all nicely tucked up in bed here in Surrey. Saw a few on a bat-counting trip yesterday. Fewer than normal, though, according to the bat man. Possibly gone elsewhere in the mines, or neighbourhood, on account of the mild winter? All pretty non-active, though.

 

[danthecavingman]

Not seen any bats up here recently. Only in the summer.

 

[ditzy 24//7]

seen a couple of bats in a few caves a while back but not recently. we used to have two bats flying round our house at night a couple of years back .

 

[Brains]

Seen bats hunting in Derbyshire 2 weeks ago, catkins onthe trees and leaves in bud...

 

[kay]

seen a couple of bats in a few caves a while back but not recently. we used to have two bats flying round our house at night a couple of years back .

Came down one morning to find one hanging from the kitchen light fitting

 

[Les W]

seen a couple of bats in a few caves a while back but not recently. we used to have two bats flying round our house at night a couple of years back .

Came down one morning to find one hanging from the kitchen light fitting

I hope you didn't disturb it...