Holy bat boxes! It’s Batman and Robin!

Nov 1 2008 by Katie Campling, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Holy bat boxes! It’s Batman and Robin!

DYNAMIC duo Batman and Robin swooped in to Cooper Bridge to help wildlife.

The pair were at Lower Brighouse Waste Water treatment works on Friday to help build boxes for pipistrelle bats who have made the site their home.

The Yorkshire Water works are undergoing a £26m upgrade to improve the water quality of the River Calder.

Contractors Morgan Est moved in with a 120-strong workforce in March. When leaving the site at the end of each day, they have noticed more and more pipistrelles arriving for a night’s hunting.

Instead of trying to deter the nocturnal visitors, Morgan Est and Yorkshire Water decided to build bat boxes to house the night hunters – and called in the ‘caped crusaders’ to help with construction.