{"id":6336,"date":"2012-08-16T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T07:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T09:53:28","slug":"bat-care-a-good-news-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"Bat care &#8211; a good news story."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1561\" style=\"width: 153px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/baby-bat-flapping.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1561\" title=\"baby bat flapping\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/baby-bat-flapping.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration Joan Childs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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\u00a0 uninjured female common pipistrelle. It is not unusual for juveniles to forget their way home when they first fly. We located the roost in a window frame ( not rocket science , there were droppings on the window sill below the entrance point, but we tried to look wise).\u00a0 In the hot weather they had opened the window. She was given a drink and we then tried reintroducing her to the roost. She moved so fast we did\u00a0 not get a chance to take a photo. In an instant all that remained in view was a tiny fragment of tail and that too\u00a0 quickly disappeared . We had another cup of tea, just n case she fell out again , but all was well and we headed home feeling smug<\/p>\n<p>If you find a grounded bat ring theNational Bat Helplinet on 0845 1399 228<\/p>\n<p>More information on what to do with a grounded bat\u00a0 :-\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-7-what-to-with-a-grounded-bat.pdf\">2011-7 What to with a grounded bat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0 uninjured female common pipistrelle. It is not unusual for juveniles to forget their way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6336\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,22],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bat-care","tag-pipistrelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6339,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}