Not bats - and that's official!

Firstly, a celebration that just over two weeks after we moved in we have internet again. Hurrah - and it's amazing how difficult it has seemed without it which must be a lesson in some way, but not necessarily a good one?! Next, to start to catch up on what's happened. We had the ecology survey done and the Bat Lady says we've officially not got roosting bats. The survey has to be done all evening from just before twilight through to dark in good weather - apparently bats can sense pressure drops and don't fly. The day she was originally scheduled to do it we'd been flying and there had been virtually no bugs to clean off the leading edges. I queried whether this was why she had cancelled ie the lack of prey activity, but apparently not, it was due to the pressure dropping and potential rain forecast. She was very interested to hear that some days are buggy and some not - hadn't considered convection/insect flight and how that might affect bat activity. So the sport of gliding may just have contributed something to ecological intelligence...