Bat-friendly capped mineshafts.

Superbe compo !!!

Thank you, Boro!

C'est une bonne idée de permettre aux chauves-souris l'accès au puit.

Yes indeed! Many thanks, Malik!

Nice shot and a great idea for the bats.

Indeed! Thank you, Doug!

Nice and colourful.
Thank you for the info Andy.

wonderful!

Jaap,
Annemarie,
Thank you both!

Penso che tu abbia una grande nostalgia della Cornovaglia ...
tutte le tue belle foto lo testimoniano

That's true, Nora! Thank you!

That is a great idea .. it makes a lovely image too.

It does! Thank you, Steve!

Very interesting, Andy ! And a nice picture !

Many thanks, Ulrich!

I think in these days of Pandemic bats are not in the top ten of favorites.

Probably true but then, it's not really their fault!

Wow! A wonderful idea!

Thank you, Poly!

A lovely coastal scene and an interesting concept.

Many thanks, George!

What a good idea.................and I guess it provides refuge etc for other wildlife as well.

A great show of wildflowers Andy and a nice view out to sea!

I'm trying to think what other wildlife you mean, Keith! Bats seem to be more or less about the only candidates to me!
Pleased you like it. I'll add wildflowers to the notes ... Ah! I see I already have! (Well to keynotes anyway!)

There will be plenty of wildlife among the flowers (insects mainly) which won't get bothered now there is that structure keeping people out :-)

All in all, a win-win situation, Keith!

Interesting view, Andy !!!!

Many thanks, Marie-claire!

They do that with many of the old mines in Death Valley. What a wonderful photo of the Cornish coast. Must make a point of getting back there again.

Glad it's now common practice, Ron!

Good idea!

Yes. Thank you, Reinhold!

Good information Andy. I didn't know that.

Thank you, Rosa.
Nor did I. I was puzzled, assuming they were to stop cattle, ponies, dogs and humans falling down. So I had to look it up (I forget where) and found out!

What a cool thing! It's nice when humans get the picture and help our fellow earth creatures.

We have swifts that migrate through the city every October. They use a very tall chimney from grade school (old building still in use). When my daughter went there, they wouldn't turn the furnace on in the school until the swifts had moved on - all the kids wore their coast inside. That was until about 10 years ago when they finally got a different type furnace and no longer use the chimney at all, so the swifts can stay as long as they want without the kids being cold!

Yes, sometimes people can do some heartwarming things!
Thank you, Laura!

Lovely weather to compliment this lovely scene Andy. Well done. Best wishes, Anton.

Many thanks, Anton!

Fantastic!

Thank you, Cheryl!

Great idea for a bat-friendly method of keeping the old mine shafts safe. Hope there are more of these! Love the flowers too - heather and gorse. Also an orchid just right of centre? Or perhaps a foxglove (more likely, thnking about it...)

Thank you!
Yes there are 100s of these scattered round the coast and inland too. I think the plant is heather, just a little bit more prominent than its neighbours!

.. et la végétation a repris ses droits pour le plaisir des yeux !++++++++

Indeed! Many thanks, Jocelyne!

So beautifully composed!

Thank you, Leon!

Now _that's_ interesting! Here they just tend to get filled in, at least in the immediate vicinity of the urban area, for hazard amelioration.

As they did in the past here too, Steve. Fortunately some more enlightened folk had other ideas ...

I am a bat’s friend.....

Pleased to hear it, Isabel!

How interesting, Andy. It's lovely to hear that, so this way the bats can go into the caves and be safe.

They can come and go from their roosting places. I didn't know it but they use these opsn-cast mineshafts to roost in during the day.

LOVE THE WAY THEY HAVE DONE THIS