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Tag Archives: bat care
Noctule pup on solids
The juvenile noctule continues to come on in leaps and bounds. He is now eating mealworms and soon we shall have to get him some flight cage practice.
Upper Caldicote WI Talk
Did a talk or the Upper Caldicote WI group yesterday and included some video clips of the new born noctule which Simon had put on You Tube. I was taken ill part way through and Bob had to take over, … Continue reading
Baby noctule
The young noctle continues to thrive. This is a picture of him at 3weeks. He now weighs 15 grams which is the same weight as his mum when she was found her in a fallen tree. (Adult noctules usually … Continue reading
While I was away…
So while we were in Trinidad was everything quiet here? Well to be honest – far from it. If you remember last year we reported finding a noctule who we took into care over the winter . Originally underweight she … Continue reading
Bat care course
At what felt like silly o’clock a group of us turned out for a morning’s bat care course. This was led by Simon who is in charge of bat care – a rather sleepy Simon as he has a newborn … Continue reading
Valentine massacre averted
Now we know one place that pipistrelles hibernate in winter. We have just had two pips a male and a female) brought into care, who had made the mistake of hibernating in a stack of scaffolding boards. These boards were … Continue reading
Bat caught in a storm
Towards the end of November we had some very windy nights, one of which brought down a particular tree branch. A passerby the next day noticed a bat lying on the ground nearby and Colin went to collect it. It … Continue reading
Bat Care – Good News Part 2
We reported a successful bat rescue two days ago and now have an update. The householder contacted us yesterday to say another bat had got lost, but this time rather than call us out again, the plucky man successfully reintroduced … Continue reading
Bat care – a good news story.
We had a call from a friend yesterday who had found a bat on his living room floor. When we got there we found a juvenile uninjured female common pipistrelle. It is not unusual for juveniles to forget their way … Continue reading
Bats in care- a good news story (so far)
This season has been hard on bats .Many parts of the country have been inundated with juveniles in very poor conditio0n. We have had several that have been so badly malnourished we were unable to anything for them. There are … Continue reading