EveningRise

For ecological consultancies, surveyors and bat advisors. Automatic detection in thermal video, validation of every event, traceable documentation and reporting, in the browser with no installation, hosted in Germany.

• Preliminary roost assessments and roost inspections before renovation, conversion or demolition
• Emergence counts at maternity roosts and hibernation sites
• Swarming surveys and dawn re-entry surveys
• Entry and exit counts at swift nests and other building-nesting birds
• Evidence for protected species assessments, including the German saP
• Monitoring of replacement roosts, nest boxes and mitigation (CEF) measures

I'm Gregor Baumert. I spent many years in media technology – in quality control on film sets, in film post-production and with renowned film camera manufacturers. Today I bring that experience to my work in species protection: I survey bats, write ecological reports and develop custom conservation solutions and products.

I built EveningRise because I no longer wanted to spend hours searching thermal footage for single bats that are often hard to spot. I wanted to capture, check and document every flight in a traceable way. I develop the tool myself – using AI-assisted development tools – and test it on real emergence surveys.

More about my conservation work: gbaumert.de

Other tools I've developed (in German):

• BatForecast – a prototype that forecasts bat activity and swarming from the weather, to help find good time windows for surveys.
• Time & Sun – calculates sunrise and sunset for chosen places and periods and exports them as calendar events, to make survey times easier to plan.