{"id":11783,"date":"2016-02-24T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11783"},"modified":"2016-02-24T15:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T15:51:02","slug":"the-bat-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11783","title":{"rendered":"The bat season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/batzzzzzzz.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11785 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/batzzzzzzz-295x300.gif\" alt=\"batzzzzzzz\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is still a bit early in the year for bats to be about, but it would seem that not all bats know this. We had a call yesterday to a bat found in a house. Gwen collected him on the way home from work and the bat is going to one of the at care team today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/laughing-bat.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/laughing-bat.jpg\" alt=\"laughing-bat\" width=\"296\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you come across a grounded bat, ring the Bat Conservation helpline<\/p>\n<h3>Bat Helpline 0345 1300 228 (charged at local call rate)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>9am &#8211; 5.30pm Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays for general queries and emergencies. Until 10:30pm including weekends and bank holidays between May and September for emergencies only.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They will contact a bat carer for that county<br \/>\nYou can also read what to do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-7-what-to-with-a-grounded-bat.pdf\">here<\/a> but note that file still has the old\u00a0 phone number as it is in the process of being updated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is still a bit early in the year for bats to be about, but it would seem that not all bats know this. We had a call yesterday to a bat found in a house. Gwen collected him on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-11783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bat-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11787,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11783\/revisions\/11787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}