Bat ID

[Lotobear]

Bumped into this little guy on a recent survey in North England - not up on my bats and usually leave them to the specialists , can anyone ID him/her?

..was thinking Horseshoe?

[Lotobear]

Edit function currently unavailable - just to mention, much bigger than a Pipistrelle

[Lotobear]

Nightmare said:

Looks like a horseshoe bat to me too (prob a lesser horseshoe cos of the ears) - but they all look a bit the same to be me (I’m a bat racist it’s true)

Also I’m fairly sure that is a pile of more than one bat!

Those were my thoughts too but definately only one bat - but a big bugger! I stood and watched him for a few minutes and am certain he was not huddled with another, assuming bats do that sort of thing - it was -2.5 however so he may have been cold and 'fluffed up' so to speak

[Lotobear]

I've done some research and think it's a Daubenton's Bat

[Lotobear]

..I've had feed back from a registered bat handler/surveyor I use who I sent the pic to.

He says probably Myotis, so could be Daubenton's or another of that genus, but adds that it's not possible to do a positive ID without handling which could not be done anyway during the roosting season.