Bat at Friston Pond 25 5 2012

A few extra Friston Pond snaps, from my archives, to add to my new album.
I am particularly pleased with this photo. When I got to the pond, I could see, what I thought was a swallow circling around the pond and dipping down to the surface of the water. When I looked more closely I could see that its flight path was more erratic than a swallow's would have been and realized that it was a bat. I put my camera on a multiple shot setting and took a couple of dozen photos. This and one other were the only ones that showed the bat in any detail. I think it is fairly unusual to see bats out in the sunshine. Friston Forest is just over the road from the pond. I expect that that is where it lives.