Bat photography part 2 - Fantastic bats and where to find them

[@pembridgehouse]

Thanks for these videos we have small bats in our backyard at night. I can hear them. We also get bigger ones,flying foxes,sometimes. I googled bat photography as I was wondering how I might photograph them and found my way here.Geoff. Adelaide South Australia.

[@lbs9218]

Looking forward to the next one!

[@knightryderbelow]

Where the heck did part 3 go???????

[@RuiMiguelDaSilvaPinto]

Is there a part three? I just found out this and really wanted to learn about your set up...

[@richlaw5136]

Where is part 3 ??

[@brettmezen900]

These bat videos are great. I do a lot of nocturnal photography and would like to move into shooting microbats. I see in you videos it looks like you have a large IR trigger of some sort? It looks about 40cms high. Maybe I'm not looking at the right thing but I would be very interested to know what triggering system you are using. Many look to be fairly limited in the beam they output so I'm hoping for the broadest beam vertically but quite narrow horizontally to target pinch points. Any info you can share would be appreciated. Cheers, Brett

[@kaluta1891]

Hey Brett, Cheers for subscribing. The IR light barrier is my own invention and it took several years of trial and error to get it right. I've just re-designed it yet again and am working on the new circuitry to support it and make it less prone to errors as well as a vastly improved method of pre-triggering the camera. This is why it has been so long between part II and the upcoming part III - I've made huge improvements that are still in the prototype stage. I'll be happy to make part III and do some field testing when the weather warms a bit more and I find a good flyway... Stay tuned though!

[@brettmezen900]

@@kaluta1891 I look forward to it 👍

[@abhijatsinghshakya1399]

I have a question, in my area bats are in good population, so I am thinking of setting bait(moths), and put camera near it to photograph, can u give tips how to implement it?

[@blackbird3456]

I had a pool once and bats were always flying above it. Now that the pool is gone, I now go to the fast flowing river to see bats. There's one spot that is too fast for bats to even drink water, but there are spots where the water is calmer and that's where most aquatic birds, swallows and bats would go drink water. Where I live, I have 8 species, 5 of wich are critically endangered by white nose syndrome and 3 are migratory. The 5 bats endangered are hibernating and the mushroom is active during the colder months and makes the bats affected by it to wake up and kill during those times. I'm not even sure wich species I'm watching every night during the summer and I often hear them squeaking or screeching at each other. The bats I'm watching are flying at different levels and sometimes pretty high or pretty low. I'd be interested in taking photos of bats but I'm not sure that my canon eos rebel t7 can do the job.