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Bats POP IN PLACE NEWS

With the warmer summer evenings bats will be active. If you would like to see
some bats in flight stand on Jubilee Bridge around dusk. There are always several New Venture Pop In Place Brunch Café
bats over the water feeding on insects. Other good places to see bats are at
Shitterton Bridge and at the culvert entrance by the slip road to Dorchester. On the following dates Joanna and her team of
volunteers will be running a brunch style Café at the Pop
If you are aware of any active bat roosts in the area or have spotted some In Place see poster for more details the dates are;
interesting birds on your bird table or elsewhere in the area, please let us know.
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Contact Us Wednesday 7th August
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If you would like to know more about the work of the Wildlife and Environment Wednesday 4 Sept
Group or to be included on our e-mailing list, please contact: Wednesday 2 October
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Tony Bates at tonybates19@gmail.com / 01929 471563 or This will be from 11am until 1pm where you will be able to get a light lunch, the
Mike Gee at mike.n.g@outlook./com / 0775 988 4942. menu is not finalised as yet but will include bacon rolls, toasted sandwiches,
toasted tea cakes, omelettes and as much tea and coffee as you can drink.
Everyone is welcome to pop in for brunch on these days we hope to see you
AND MORE BATS!! there.

Are you bored with all the repeats on TV Thank you so much to all who came and remembered the
during the summer evenings? Would fallen on the 80 Anniversary of D Day last month.
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you like to help some of the more
interesting and rare members of Britain’s
wildlife? If your answer is “Yes” to either
or both of those questions then we have
just the thing for you.
The volunteers with East Dorset Bat
Rescue and Rehabilitation do exactly
what it says in the title and we are in
desperate need of more volunteers to
take rehabilitating bats flying at our
local outdoor flight cage. As bats emerge at dusk and fly at night, we enjoy
summer evenings watching and supervising different species of bat flying at close
quarters, knowing that once they are fit and well we can release them back to
their home territories. With training in safe handling techniques you could join this
select band who, in recent years, have enjoyed the privilege of rescuing one of
Britain’s rarest mammals, the Grey Long Eared Bat, and releasing it back to its
roost area.
The Pop In Place paid tribute to both George Bowditch and Fredrick Lovell both
For information on what we do please look at our website or email us at from Bere Regis who died in Normandy. We heard about some of the memories
edbrr.bats@gmail.com or to talk to someone to find out what volunteering entails from Lewis Bartlett about when he was a young boy and the troops were
please phone 01929 553638. gathered in Shitterton waiting to pull out to go to Weymouth to cross to France.

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