Join London Wildlife Trust staff and volunteers for our annual bat walk at Sydenham Wells Park. Bat calls are largely undetectable to the human ear and so we will be using bat detectors to listen to the sounds of these wonderful mammals. Bats use sonar or echolocation to hunt for prey during the night, sending sound out into the world around them to create an aural picture of their surroundings. Each bat has a different call from which they can be identified.
Sydenham Wells Park is a remnant of the Great North Wood, an ancient landscape of woods and commons which once stretched from Deptford to Selhurst. There are lots of bats to be seen (and heard) at the Park including noctule, Leisler, common and soprano pipistrelles.
Previous walks at the Park have provided a large number of sightings of bats, but patience is required in the early stages.
If there is heavy rain or thunderstorms the walk will be postponed to a later date.
Date: Friday 1st June
Time: 8.30pm – 10pm
Meet:
Meet by the duck pond accessed via the Longton Avenue gate opposite Ormanton Road,
Sydenham Wells Park,
Sydenham,
Greater London,
SE26
