Scottish Wildlife Trust are giving a talk on  Thursday 20th March

entitled, Bats--Myth & Reality

Presentation by Keith Cohen

7:30 pm at
Meffan Gallery, West High St. Forfar.

Admission £3.50/Junior £1.

It was a great day for the weather, and we had a good turn-out. Kathy Longmuir of the Dundee City Council Ranger service had everything running like clock-work and we all had fun building boxes. Thanks for inviting us along Kathy! Thanks also to Scottish Natural Heritage for financing the bat box kits. Thanks also to Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Conservation Officer of the Bat Conservation Trust for the use of the display materials.

We had a good range of age groups and managed to complete around twenty boxes, which are now ready for putting up to be used as bat roosts.

Dundee Bat Group licensed bat carer Tracey Jolliffe came along and brought some of the bats that she is currently caring for. The Brown Long-eared bat proved very popular with the children,

Here are some photographs of the event.

Volunteers are invited to come along and take positive action for the city's bat population at this month's Balgay Conservation volunteer day on 17th February.
Dundee City Council Countryside Ranger Service have been awarded funding from Scottish Natural Heritage to purchase 50 bat box kits and all that is needed is willing volunteers to help construct the boxes.

The Rangers will also be joined on Sunday by members of the recently formed Dundee Bat Group. This group with the welfare of the city's bats in mind has been established after a successful bat surveying project by Bat Conservation Trust in 2007.

Convenor of Leisure and Communities, Cllr Richard McCready said "it is great to see new a conservation group in Dundee working in partnership with our city's Ranger Service to protect this threatened mammal".
 
Anyone wishing to come along to the volunteering day should meet at Mills Observatory on Sunday 17th February at 1pm, all tools will be provided.

For further information please contact the Ranger Service tel 01382 431848 or email countryside.rangers@dundeecity.gov.uk