This little girl is a Lesser Long Eared Bat who was very flat when I picked her off the garage door where she had been hanging for 36 hours.
Her ears were up which is always a bad sign, and she was very shouty, however when I got her to the carer she'd warned up significantly and was cranky and wriggly.
3 days later, she was stuffing her face and behaving like a normal little microbatty.
This footage is from 2 weeks later; I love her confident nom noms.
Thanks Jess for the footage of our adorable little Maggie May.
I"ve included some footage of a non rescue that I did where a juvenile bat was hanging out in a tree alone during the day; she's too high to get down safely but I suspect there's nothing wrong with her and any rescue attempt would see her fly off. I went back on subsequent days, and she was still there, hanging out along the same branch, but I noticed a buddy very high up the tree; both look quite young and both are moving well around the tree so I'm leaving them there and keeping an eye on things.
Tolga Bat Hospital takes donations for our batties. Tolga is an awesome place in Far North Queensland, which has charity status. By sending donations to them, they get a percentage (and deserve every cent) and they can allocate money to me for batty expenses without it becoming part of my income stream (which makes tax time difficult).
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Mention Megabattie or Meg in the PayPal message box and the money will find its way to me.
If no message box appears, please email Jenny to tell her that the money is for me.
IMPORTANT: If you pay through the PayPal Giving Fund, can you please email Jenny with the AMOUNT DONATED and the name under which you have donated, OR just forward along the PP receipt.
The Giving Fund doesn’t charge any fees (so the bats get more money) but PP doesn’t itemise out the amount, they just send a total every month, and we don’t know if the money is for Tolga or for Megabattie.
Here’s Jenny’s email.
jenny@tolgabathospital.org
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