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Photo of Conservation group members presenting a copy of ‘Bobby the Brown Long-Eared Bat’’ to the library.

Saturday 7th October 2017 SH (Editor)

Three Brooks nature reserve in September

An update from Sara Messenger of Bradley Stoke’s Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group. All things batty! Thanks to the generosity of Bradley Stoke Town Council, our ‘bat walks’, unlike those in many other places, are free to the public – although I’m sure their continued popularity has as much to do with Avon Bat Group’s Stewart Rowdon’s engaging manner as with

Staff at Bradley Stoke Library with bat detectors and field guides.

Saturday 23rd November 2013 SH (Editor)

Bat detectors and field guides available to borrow from library

Bat detectors are available to borrow from Bradley Stoke Library and each detector now comes with a field guide and a leaflet on bat detecting in Bradley Stoke. The leaflet was written by Gill Smith (committee member of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group) and John Morris (South Gloucestershire Council) and contains information on bats and a map showing the

Participants of a 'bat walk' held in Bradley Stoke.

Wednesday 22nd August 2012 SH (Editor)

Bat walk proves popular despite the weather

Despite last Friday’s very wet weather, 52 people braved the elements for the first of this year’s guided ‘bat walks’ around the Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve in Bradley Stoke. After a welcome from the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group and a brief talk from Bekki Farrar of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), bat species guides & ‘bat detectors’ were loaned