Sir,

I could not resist a wry smile after reading the article in last week's Tenby Observer about the possibility of bats inhabiting the town walls of Tenby. All credit to the Tenby Observer team for having the wonderful ability to digress with such ease into such a poignant subject.

The bat (dermoptura) or flying lemur has, or so I have been told, found a good sanctuary to live in and has been sighted around Upper Frog Street. Being bats, they are extremely shy, nocturnal in habit. They follow a strict code of conduct in the orbital field and the chances of these shy creatures causing a blight on the environmental structure in Tenby is virtually zero. Do bats tear open rubbish or swoop down on discarded litter? No.

There is something very harmonious that bats should choose to shelter in the fort structure of the town walls. Illumination would prove both costly and out of tradition with such a wealth of historic wonderment.

Tenby council would be prudent to acknowledge the survey rather than define it as being nonsense; a protected species has a right to say that way.

Miss Y. M. Nicholl BSYA (Veg Th).

Penally.