F - Night Sounds

The woodland comes alive at night. Lots of the animals that live here only come out after dark. If you were here late at night you might hear the hoot of an owl… You might hear foxes screeching… You might hear the barking of a deer… You might even hear the sound of playful badgers… But there are some sounds you wouldn’t hear, even if you were here. As they fly around the woodland at night, bats make super high pitched sounds that are extremely loud, but too high for us to hear. With a special device called a bat detector, we can record these sounds and translate them into a lower sound that we can hear. Bats use these sounds to find their way around and hunt for insects in the darkness. They listen for the echoes coming back to them and build a sound map of their environment. Did you know one single bat can eat thousands of tiny insects in just one night?!