that we are lucky enough to have a colony of Lesser Horseshoe bats living in the attic of Great Gutton. Even more exciting is that it could be a breeding colony. The Lesser Horseshoe bat is very rare in the UK, although relatively common in southwest England and as a result is protected by law. The batmen (yes there were two of them and no neither is called Robin) used bat detectors to listen to the bats ultrasound signals as they left their roost at dusk this evening. The twenty or so bats spotted and heard will apparently spend all night hunting insects in the hedges, woods and orchards at Great Gutton before returning to the attic at dawn for a well earned rest.
