I've come across a book on the birds of Oxfordshire printed in c. 1870 in
which there is a reference to local boys going "bat
fowling". They seem to have used nets as the context was that they
occassionally caught robins which they released. Does anyone know
anything about this pastime in Oxfordshire or elsewhere? I'd particularly
like to know what they were likely to do with the bats when they'd
"fowled" them.
AEM
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