Events

Events are usually members only unless otherwise stated. Members will be emailed with event details and invited to email us for a place on the event. Children accompanied by a responsible adult may attend some events. Ask the event organiser who will do a risk assessment.

NBG Events Calendar

You can view the planned upcoming events in our Google Calendar. This is to enable you to keep dates free. Closer to the events when we have more detail it will appear below and you will be emailed an invite to join the events. You do not have a place until you recieve a confirmation email.

Bat Care Training Day

Our bat care team would like to invite interested members to this year's training day for new carers, to be held on 19th April, 10.30am to 3.30pm.

This is an opportunity to meet both new and experienced carers. The day will be a mixture of presentations and practical advice.

19th April, 10.30am to 3.30pm

Webinar series on echolocation and call identification

There will be a series of zoom webinars aimed toward new members or members wishing to develop their skills in identifying bat calls from active or passive detectors full spectrum detectors. Members will be emailed details and webinar links. This will give you skills needed to identify bats from detectors in Bats in Churches, Clumber Park and Echoes of Echolocation.

Monday April 6th 7.30 an introduction to echolocation

How bats use echolocation to navigate and find food.

Monday April 13th 7.30 An introduction to setting up Titley Anabat Insight software

NBG use Titley static detectors and the free version of Insight will help you analyse these calls.

Monday 20th April 7.30pm Basic bat call and species identification

Each species has a typical echolocation frequency range which can help separate species recorded.

Monday 27th April 7.30 Social calls and some call artifacts.

Social calls can confuse some auto id apps into identifying the wrong species. Pipistrelle social calls and Noctule calls are very common. However some social calls are unique to a species and may allow certanty with identification.

NBG AGM 7.30pm 30th March

Our AGM this year will be held on zoom with an invite emailed out to members the week before. An email with relevant papers has already been sent out.

Clumber Park Yew Tree Project
Sunday 22nd March 2026

This project first ran in 2016 for 3 years with Ben McLean. Little documented work had been done on bat roosts in Yew trrees before this. 73 Yew trees in 3 areas were studied over 3 years and published in the 'Northern Bats'.

On Sunday 22nd March 2026 a group of us will revisit these trees and record any bats found with torch and endoscopes under supervision of licenced bat workers.

This is a members only event with a mambers email inviting interested members.

Creswell Crags Hibernation Survey. Sunday 1st March 2026

Bookings will be advertised to members when open.

There are 11 places available. We restrict numbers to help minimise disturbance.

It will be an early start, 8.30am, to allow time for introductions and be ready to head into the Gorge at 9.00am, so we are out of the way for the public tours.

Sensible clothing, it can feel very cold if wind blows through the gorge, sturdy footwear, safety helmet, torches and preferably removable clothing i.e an overall so as not to soil the cafe or/and cars on the way home as when crawling around the caves your bottom half in particular can get dirty.

At present there is a new ANPR system for parking, it is important to pay the fee to avoid getting a fine.

The cafe will be open for food after the survey, previous surveys have normally completed around 12.30 onwards.

Winter Talks 2026

We have booked three talks over the winter: These start with a meal at 6.30pm and the talk starting at 7.30pm. Members can book to join in either or both the meal and talk. You will recieve an email invite. Non members can email the group asking to join in as long as there are spare places.

These talks will be at Ye Olde Bridge Inn at Oxton in The Stables function room as shown on the right.

February 2nd 2026 Bats Super Powers with Matthew Terry

Bookings will be advertised to members by email.

January 12th 2026 Bats in Churches with Barry Collins

This talk has now been advertised to members. Places for the meal and seats for the talk need to be pre booked so we can ensure there are enough tables and chairs. Barry was one of the early members of Nottinghamshire Bat Group when it was infact 2 groups North and South notts. Barry has a long history of working with Bats in Churches pre dating the Bats in Churches Project though B J Collins Protected Species Surveyors.

March 2nd 2026 Bat Group Officer Dan Bryant (BCT) will host a talk online. Details to Follow soon.

AGM now rescheduled for Monday March 30th online. Details to follow soon.