Big group for walk on St Martin's

On a lovely quiet, mild and moonlit evening a big group of locals and visitors turned up yesterday for a bat walk on St Martin's.

Walking up to the Reading Room, where the walk started, I was surprised to see as many as 40 people there! Fortunately we had a few detectors to share between the group so that everyone could hear bats as they passed.

A tense 15 minutes ensued where no bats were seen or heard! Fortunately they did come out after this and we had quite a few passes between the Church and Lower Town. Most people seemed very pleased to encounter the bats and hear their echolocation on the detectors. Questions were flowing thick and fast and such events are clearly important to enhance peoples' understanding of bats and their habitat.

A total of £54 was collected in donations, which all helps the group.