• The Key to Echolocation

    By now we would have delivered our annual Introduction to Bats training course for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust members.

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  • COVID-19 Announcement

    COVID-19 Announcement Following new advice from the Prime Minister issued on Monday 16th March 2020 to avoid all unnecessary social contact, we have taken the decision to postpone all of our...

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  • Winter Wanderings Part 2

    As in December I left one of the Group’s Anabat Express detectors out in my South Derbyshire garden throughout January.

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  • White Peak Caves

    On the last weekend in January eight members of Derbyshire and Staffordshire bat groups teamed up to undertake a joint hibernation survey of four caves owned by the National Trust...

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  • Winter Wanderings

    All UK bats hibernate through the winter – it’s one of the first things we learn when getting interested in bats.

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  • Cave Activity

    One of the caves we undertake winter hibernation surveys at for the National Bat Monitoring Programme near Wetton Mill in the Manifold Valley has had no bats spotted in it...

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  • A Huge Thank You

    We would just like to say a huge thank you to members of the general public who have recently donated to Derbyshire Bat Group using the link on our website.

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  • Wildlife Crime Case Update

    The case against two individuals regarding damage/destroy of a resting place of a wild animal (common pipistrelle bats) at Slack Farm, Ashover in Derbyshire was to be heard on 19...

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  • Hilton Gravel Pit Nature Reserve Bat Box Scheme

    We have had a bat box scheme at Hilton since 1991.

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  • Moor Bats - Halloween Update

    Results from the eighth and final deployment of the Anabat recorder on the Peak District moors for this season have now been processed.

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