Anni Binet
@annibinet.bsky.social
Consultant ecologist specialising in bats 🦇 volunteer researcher and member of too many bat groups. Bat Conservation Trust Trustee. Dabbler in photography. AuDHD. All views my own.
#hibernation season has hit and I've slowed down along with the slow down in surveys, but did get out on another #dormouse survey just before the cold snap with some lovely chonky boys found, one at a whopping 32g!
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#hibernation season has hit and I've slowed down along with the slow down in surveys, but did get out on another #dormouse survey just before the cold snap with some lovely chonky boys found, one at a whopping 32g!
On occasion I go and play with things other than bats, today was one of those days. Nice results for this NDMP site with 4 juvenile's in one box, then a breeding female and very late babies in the last box of the day. 🤞🏼 for a mild autumn so they can fatten up sufficiently to survive the winter
October 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On occasion I go and play with things other than bats, today was one of those days. Nice results for this NDMP site with 4 juvenile's in one box, then a breeding female and very late babies in the last box of the day. 🤞🏼 for a mild autumn so they can fatten up sufficiently to survive the winter
All signs are pointing to 2025 being a mast year. The number of nuts trees produce varies each year, smaller crops over consecutive years keep populations of animals eating them in check. In a mast year, they produce more than the animals can possibly eat. We took advantage at the local walnut tree!
September 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
All signs are pointing to 2025 being a mast year. The number of nuts trees produce varies each year, smaller crops over consecutive years keep populations of animals eating them in check. In a mast year, they produce more than the animals can possibly eat. We took advantage at the local walnut tree!
Joined #Brumbats for a 🦇 autumn swarming survey last night, first time for me requiring a boat to set up, check and collect the traps! Weather didn't play ball for us so everything is hung up to dry today but a good night none the less!
September 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Joined #Brumbats for a 🦇 autumn swarming survey last night, first time for me requiring a boat to set up, check and collect the traps! Weather didn't play ball for us so everything is hung up to dry today but a good night none the less!
Autumnal textures in the woods today
September 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Autumnal textures in the woods today
Lovely female noctule 🦇 posing for me in the full moon light
August 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Lovely female noctule 🦇 posing for me in the full moon light
This week I've been working with @batconservation.bsky.social and @vincentwt.bsky.social on a volunteer project at Mottisfont SAC trapping and tagging barbastelle bats and finding their roosts. Barbs love lifted bark to roost behind such as shown in this clip from last night 🦇
July 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This week I've been working with @batconservation.bsky.social and @vincentwt.bsky.social on a volunteer project at Mottisfont SAC trapping and tagging barbastelle bats and finding their roosts. Barbs love lifted bark to roost behind such as shown in this clip from last night 🦇
What bat is that? Can you tell the UK species just from what you see here? 🦇
July 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
What bat is that? Can you tell the UK species just from what you see here? 🦇
Today's invert is the same as yesterday, but this time with a male joining the party. Did you know that glow worms are actually a beetle? They live as a grub for around 3 years before emerging in their adult form for a matter of weeks, during which they don't feed and use all their energy for mating
July 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today's invert is the same as yesterday, but this time with a male joining the party. Did you know that glow worms are actually a beetle? They live as a grub for around 3 years before emerging in their adult form for a matter of weeks, during which they don't feed and use all their energy for mating
Today's invert on a bat survey is the humble glow worm. Weird looking little things, but very cool. In the UK there is a #glowworm survey website where you can record your sightings
www.glowworms.org.uk
www.glowworms.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Today's invert on a bat survey is the humble glow worm. Weird looking little things, but very cool. In the UK there is a #glowworm survey website where you can record your sightings
www.glowworms.org.uk
www.glowworms.org.uk
Did my usual forgetting to post once 🦇 survey season hit... along with forgetting to take any bat pics 🤦🏼 so here's a Poplar hawk moth I removed from a mist net last night instead!
July 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Did my usual forgetting to post once 🦇 survey season hit... along with forgetting to take any bat pics 🤦🏼 so here's a Poplar hawk moth I removed from a mist net last night instead!
Out about assessing woodlands for suitability for rare🦇 species and it's good to see the ancient woodland indicators such as yellow archangel, British blue bell and dog's mercury making their spring appearance, not so good to see rhododendron which is a schedule 9 invasive species
March 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Out about assessing woodlands for suitability for rare🦇 species and it's good to see the ancient woodland indicators such as yellow archangel, British blue bell and dog's mercury making their spring appearance, not so good to see rhododendron which is a schedule 9 invasive species
As it's #worldbookday I finally got around to ordering myself a copy of @batman-shipman.bsky.social 's 🦇 ID book to aid in training of volunteers for surveys over the summer!
March 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
As it's #worldbookday I finally got around to ordering myself a copy of @batman-shipman.bsky.social 's 🦇 ID book to aid in training of volunteers for surveys over the summer!
Bechstein's 🦇 aren't known to be at Mottisfont, but there is plenty of suitable habitat within the oak-ash woodlands, with hazel understory providing the clutter this species likes, there were also plenty of cavity features like woodpecker holes so 🤞🏼
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Bechstein's 🦇 aren't known to be at Mottisfont, but there is plenty of suitable habitat within the oak-ash woodlands, with hazel understory providing the clutter this species likes, there were also plenty of cavity features like woodpecker holes so 🤞🏼
Couldn't resist endoscoping a few accessible features whilst out, including one particular veteran oak which was covered in suitable features, most out of reach but lifted bark 2m was accessible and whilst no bats were home I did find a low number of fresh droppings!
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Couldn't resist endoscoping a few accessible features whilst out, including one particular veteran oak which was covered in suitable features, most out of reach but lifted bark 2m was accessible and whilst no bats were home I did find a low number of fresh droppings!
Out and about in the sunshine yesterday scoping the SAC Mottisfont woodlands for trapping locations for barbastelle and Bechstein's 🦇 trapping projects in the summer in collaboration with @batconservation.bsky.social and @vincentwt.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Out and about in the sunshine yesterday scoping the SAC Mottisfont woodlands for trapping locations for barbastelle and Bechstein's 🦇 trapping projects in the summer in collaboration with @batconservation.bsky.social and @vincentwt.bsky.social
🦇 Hibernation survey with Hampshire bat group at the weekend of a derelict manor house, only 4 bats found, 2 of which were pipistrelles, but sooo many inaccessible places where more are likely to be hiding!
February 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🦇 Hibernation survey with Hampshire bat group at the weekend of a derelict manor house, only 4 bats found, 2 of which were pipistrelles, but sooo many inaccessible places where more are likely to be hiding!
Record count for the site with 65 lesser horseshoe bats at today's hibernation survey with Dorset Bat group 🦇
February 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Record count for the site with 65 lesser horseshoe bats at today's hibernation survey with Dorset Bat group 🦇
🦇 hibernation survey today in an old chalk mine and finally remembered my phone as an inbuilt IR camera, pretty impressed with the resolution!
February 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🦇 hibernation survey today in an old chalk mine and finally remembered my phone as an inbuilt IR camera, pretty impressed with the resolution!
Old barns are frequent haunts for #bats 🦇, and are often utilised year round due to the presence of deep crevices in wood and stone work making perfect hibernation roosts. Use of endoscopes are vital for sites such as these as the features are usually not otherwise able to be fully viewed
January 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Old barns are frequent haunts for #bats 🦇, and are often utilised year round due to the presence of deep crevices in wood and stone work making perfect hibernation roosts. Use of endoscopes are vital for sites such as these as the features are usually not otherwise able to be fully viewed