Building your own bat boxes I’m going to talk you through the building of one of the most easy to construct bat boxes. And it’s arguably up there with the best of them, being self-cleaning and offering lots of nooks and crannies for bats to hide away during the day. There’s a few different bat boxes on the market of various designs and constructed from all sorts of materials. I’ll be showing you how to make the Kent Bat Box, named after the Kent Bat Group who designed it. www.kentbatgroup.org.uk It’s really simple to make from a plank of oak... read more
So what’s a hibernaculum? A hiber-what-do-you-call-em I hear you say. A hibernaculum is basically a safe place for hibernating creatures to see out the winter months. Ideally it’ll protect them from the worst of the weather and predators. We built the big one for Sutton and East Surrey Water, and the smaller one for Toyota’s wildlife friendly gardens. You can scale it up or down according to space you have. Anything you do will be beneficial to amphibians as well as other wildlife. First things first It’s sensible to mark out your area so you’ve a rough idea how the scale... read more
