Many thanks to Diane Gregory of the West Yorkshire Bat Group who led a wonderful bat walk.The photograph does not do justice to the evening – but unfortunately, due to an oversight, it is the only one your correspondent took!
There were 38 (!) of us, including a pleasing number of children, and due to Diane’s prior “casing of the joint” we were treated to a wonderful display of aerial acrobatics of up to a dozen bats at very close range – on occasions only a couple of feet over our heads – accompanied by a cacophony of clicks and raspberries from the bat detectors.
Most of the bats were common pipistrelle, but towards the end of the evening (about 10.30pm) some [ ] appeared. Then, on a sudden, as magically as they arrived, the bats left and the bat detectors fell silent, leaving only the excited hum of conversation.
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