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Malham Tarn Field Centre, situated near Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Follow this blog to keep up to date with current goings on at the Tarn.
The centre is run by the Field Studies Council and is popular with both geography and biology students, as well as the wider public. Opened in 1947, the Centre celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007.Within walking distance of the Centre are famous limestone features including Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and spectacular karst landscapes. The route of the Pennine Way footpath runs very close to the buildings. Nearby habitats include limestone pavement, grazed and ungrazed grassland, woodland and species-rich fen, acid peat pools and stony hill streams. Malham Tarn itself is one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe.

For more information please go to
http://www.field-studies-council.org/malhamtarn/index.aspx




Tuesday 7 August 2012

Bat Rescue

Over the weekend staff at the centre noticed a bat clinging onto a main wall in the daytime. If a bat has been out in daylight and not moved The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) website had useful information on how to move the bat. (Remember you need a license to handle bats, and need to use gloves as they can transmit rabies though scratches and bites.) The advice said to put a shoe box over the bat and slip cardboard between the wall and box to ease the bat into the box.  Then we added something warm into the box for the bat to lie under, and a small amount of water in a bottle top.

The BCT have a helpline to call so the bat can be taken by volunteers to rehabilitate it and hopefully release back into the wild again. Our bat was taken by the East Lancashire Bat Group, and once fed up a bit should be healthy to be released again at Malham. 

For more information on bats and what to do if you find an injured one look up the BCT. http://www.bats.org.uk/






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