Surbiton Wildlife Group at Claremont Gardens
We held a wildlife walk at Claremont Gardens, Surbiton for 25 Brownies from the local pack, with assistance from a member of the recently constituted Surbiton Wildlife Group (thanks to Stephanie). This centred around the main attraction, which is the pond.
A bat walk was initiated as it grew dark and twenty participants from the Wildlife Group, were able to hear bats echolocating, whilst using bat detection equipment.
Although late in the evening (sunset + 30 minutes) common pipistrelles finally arrived to drink and feed over the pond. In fact it was here that two bats spent a lot of their evening foraging over the water.
Surbiton Wildlife Group wish to improve the pond area, which is partially dry, and have submitted an application of £10k to Aviva now online for VOTING!
Once you have registered on the site you have 10 votes to use. If they receive sufficient votes to beat other projects in the same category, the project goes through to a
final judging phase. Please send it around to friends, family and
anyone who likes ponds. This is the link: community-fund.
After walking through Claremont Gardens am beginning to feel a bit concerned at the level of water in the pond and trust that it will not be aloud to run completely dry.
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