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Discovering microbats at Elsternwick Park

Batting 4 Bayside (B4B) visited Elsternwick Park on Sat. 28 February.  Local children joined Envirokids while adults and students arrived later to join Friends of Native Wildlife (FoNW). They all discovered how endoscopes are used to observe bats roosting in special bat box hanging 3 metres up a gum tree. Dark clouds and lightning threatened from afar as the last of the envirokids moved off. Anne, Paul, Angela, Tom and Elizabeth enlightened local residents on the life and needs of  Bayside's 10 species of microbats.
 

Finding microbats at Longhollow

On Tuesday February 11 twelve people gathered at Long Hollow Heathland in Beaumaris to try out the Anabat bat detectors. It was a great night for microbats - we found several Gould's Wattled Bats and some other species as well.

It seems every time we look, there are bats to be found.

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