Memorial Park - Wednesday 27th Meeting

Another good evening of surveying.

A small group met at Padiham Leisure Centre and spent time looking at obvious roost signs before heading into Memorial Park to record bat activity.

Plenty of Common Pipistrelles with a possible emergence from the nursing home. One Brown Long Eared was observed hunting under the trees above the air raid shelter, the early time suggesting a possible roost in the shelter itself

Once down by the River Calder plenty of Common  Pipistrelle activity was recorded with the addition of foraging Noctules. And then came the suprise. A lone Leisler's foraging, this is the first confirmed record of this bat in the East Lancs area. There is one historic record of a injured Leisler's being found in a factory roughly 500 metres away from where we were recording, so it is looking like there's a roost in the area which will be worth pinpointing

We'll be revisiting the area to get more records in the future.