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The morning after the bat night we opened the moth traps together with Hugo from Butterfly Conservation.

We found a variety of macro and micro moths.
the macro moths we found were

July Highflier

Lesser Broad-Bordered Yellow Underwing

Brussels Lace

Straw Dot

Six-Striped Rustic

Dingy Footman

Lesser Common Rustic

Blood Vein

Pale Prominent

Maidens Blush

Once we had recorded the info and released the moths to a safe place we went on a walk to look for butterflies. We found a number of AMAZING examples.

Late afternoon on a Monday in August the Wessex Home Education Group met together with Jenny from the Wiltshire Bat Group at Underhill. To begin the session we listened to a talk from Jenny. This was fascinating and included information about which bats are normally found in this area, their migration routes and echolocation. Whilst learning about bats from around the world we were particularly interested to learn that some of the larger bats can use their eyes to hunt for food.

After the talk we had a delicious dinner cooked on the BBQ and started to prepare for the walk. To be able to hear the bats we had bat detectors that would bring the calls down to a lower frequency which is audible to human ears. This also meant that the bats were not disturbed by us listening to their sounds.

The bats we heard while walking around the land were:

Common Pipistrelle

Soprano Pipistrelle

Brown Long Eared

Serotine

Noctule

Myotis

Thank you very much to Jenny for a fabulous evening and to Jonathan for hosting us.

Before we left for the night we set up a Robinson moth trap ready for our next session the following day

This week we have done a variety of different activities such as abseiling, climbing, canoeing, mountain adventure and many more that all worked up to our John Muir award. One of our activities we enjoyed was the Hill walk, we got to the very top of the cobbler! We put up a Parachute tent for a snack then we climbed up to the top we were so proud! The view was worth it. We felt so high up!