Nature – Bats in Shiga

For the second year running, I was lucky enough to be invited to join, and help out with, an annual research project that monitors a local colony of rare tube nosed bats.

Catching, tagging, weighing and recording data is the order of the day. I mostly helped out with putting tagged bats back in safe places where they could get over the trauma of being ‘researched’.

Here’s a selection of photo collages from the day. A full album can be found here.

Around the caves.

Finding, catching and tagging.

A Tube-nose bat and a Horse-shoe bat

Some close up details.

Lending a hand... or a whole arm!

'Researchees' recovering

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