2026 Bat Monitoring Program

The Friends of Cedarbrook & Thomson Memorial Parks invite you to join us on our Bat Monitoring Walks in the 2026 season through Cedarbrook Park. 

We do these walks to enjoy the experience of the park after dark, and to gather data for the Toronto Zoo’s Native Bat Conservation Program. We use special devices to listen for bat sounds. Further information on these detectors and bat species in our parks is presented here.

Each walk takes about 1 ½ hours. Meet at sunset (see times in schedule below) in the Cedarbrook Community Centre parking lot, 91 Eastpark Boulevard, in Scarborough near Markham Road, south of Lawrence Ave – or about 10 minutes later at the Banmoor Boulevard park entrance.  

The 2026 series of batwalks is begins on May 14. This is our 8th season of  bat monitoring in our parks and we thank the Metro Toronto Zoo for their continuing support and encouragement.

See Map for location details

The 2026 schedule of "Batwalks" has been prepared and is posted below. 

Our annual report on the 2025 Bat Monitoring program is given here

For information and a summary of the 2024 Bat Monitoring Program, click here.

For general information on the bat species living in our parks, and our bat monitoring equipment, click here