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Events to come
Tuesday 10th August: RSBP bat evening at Loch of Strathbeg
Nesbats have agreed to give a talk and walk for the RSBP. The evening will begin with a short talk from Isobel Davidson followed by a bat walk around the reserve. I will let you know the exact time shortly. Anyone from Nesbats is welcome to attend for the evening, however please let us know if you interested in coming with a contact number.
Saturday 28th August - Castle Fraser
Joint NTS(National Trust for Scotland) and Nesbats sunrise swarm event at Castle Fraser.
Come and watch soprano pipistrelle bats returning to their roost after a nights foraging. It will be dark when we get to Castle Fraser but slowly as the light dawns you will see the bats swarming round and round the roost site as they slowly re-enter, a lovely sight to watch.
Hopefully this will be followed by tea / coffe and a light breakfast snack before you head off.
Meet at the castle 5am!!!! Park in the car park and walk down to the castle to meet us - bring a torch as there will be no lighting!
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Details of forthcoming events are emailed in advance to all of our members on a regular basis and are also posted here on this page closer to the event date.
Some of our events have limited spaces which are allocated to members on a first come basis. Most of our events are free to members but on occasion we may need to charge a small fee with some specialist skills workshops.
Non members are able to attend their first event for free. However if you wish to attend future events then you must become a member.
For further details on becoming a member please contact info@nesbats.co.uk
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Past Events
24th March 2010 - Bat Dropping Analysis
Wednesday 3rd June 2009 - Haddo Country Park
Tuesday 7th July 2009 - Caves at Muchalls
Wednesday 22nd July 2009 - St Machar Cathedral
Tuesday 4th August 2009 - Finzean Saw Mill
Wednesday 19th August 2009 - Duff House
Wednesday 21st October 2009 - Drum Castle Hibernacula - Cancelled due to bad weather
Sunday 22nd November 2009 - Glenbuchat Castle Hibernacula
Thursday 22nd April 2008 - BCT Partnership Meeting
The group is meeting with Anne Youngman, the Scottish Bat Officer for Bat Conservation Trust, to discuss our group becoming a partner organisation.
Wednesday 28th April 2010 - Castle Fraser
A beginner’s introduction to bats. The event will start with a talk in thegarden bothy giving those new to bats a introduction to bat biology, their life and annual cycles, the bats of NE Scotland and basic bat detector use. This will then be followed by a walk around the castle ground to practice identifying various species using detectors.
There will also be an opportunity for those with more experience to learn more about and practice making recordings from bat detectors which can be taken to our next event for sonogram analysis.
Wednesday 25th May 2010 - Ellon Police Station
A basic introduction to sonogram analysis. The workshop will look at bat ultrasound, recording from a bat detector and sonogram analysis. We will be looking at a number of software packages including the freely available Wavesurfer and also the inexpensive BatScan.
Tuesday 22nd June 2010 - River Dee
This will be a survey training session for the Bat Conseravtion Trust's (BCT) National Bat Monitoring Program (NBMP) Waterway Survey.
Full details of this survey can be found on the BCT's website http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/waterway_survey.html
This session will introduce people to daubenton's bat identification and to the BCT survey methods. Hopefully at the end of the session people will go away with the confidence to take on their own site or at very least be able to buddy up with a more experienced partner and assist them with their survey.
We will send out further details nearer the time. Booking will also be required nearer the time.
Tuesday 28th July - Haddo House Car Park
A play with our new equipment. A few of us would like to try out the new equipment that we brought with the grant from SNH: duets and bat batons, so plan to spend an evening playing with it.
Wednesday 4th August - Birse Community Trust
The plan is to start with a discussion about last year’s visit, and look at the different detectors. This year the group will only be visiting the saw mill. | 
