Batwatch

On Friday 21st May 1999 we went to Moor House for a Bat Watch. When we got there we went into the training room to see some slides, there was a man also giving a talk about the different kinds of bats which were shown on the different slides. He told us about the different habitat's and where you would expect to find the places where they roost.
As the evening went on we went outside to see if we could see some bats. We waited quite a while before the bats came out, the first bat we saw were the smallest they were called piperstral, it's whole body length was only two inches and would easy fit into a match box. As the night went on and it got darker and  we saw  hundreds of them. The people who were in charge of the event had special machines which looked like a small black box it picked up the sound of the bats before you saw them, it sounded like a clicking noise. The whole evening was really could and we learned a lot about all the different kinds of bats.

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