Miserable weather sunday, so didn't venture out. Spent most of the day doing DIY!
In the evening took my new bat detector out between showers, and recorded my first bat of the year.. A Noctule, one of the UK's larger species.. with a long-range echolocation, it is usually seen flying high at around dusk, flying direct between church spires, pylons etc.
Interesting that I would have missed this bat with my previous "heterodyne" detector, as I was tuned into 45KHz. However, the "Frequency Division" channel on my newer model started clicking telling me there was something out there, and I was able to re-tune and find the Noctule which calls at a much lower frequency (~25KHz).
No Daubenton's or Pipistrelles which are also in the area, although I had to postpone the recording as the rain started.
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