Exciting News!

A little bat that came in to care on the last day of May had a wing tear, but also a slightly hard tummy so ‘query pregnant’ got written in the record. Fifteen days later, our query pregnant bat doesn’t have a question mark against it anymore!

I had been leaving her undisturbed as much as possible for the wing tear to have a chance to heal and I hadn’t done anything much with her for a few days, apart from put food and clean water in.  I decided a day or so ago to put her enclosure all nice and clean. I peeled her bedding layers off her loo roll tube (her favourite place to be) and she suddenly went running across the front of her enclosure and up the back wall, pup firmly attached under her right wing!! 

So sorry I disturbed her and her new baby!! ( although they should be absolutely fine). 

She now has a choice of nice clean loo roll tubes, lots of fresh mealworms, clean flooring etc. and I’ve added a tiny bit of Zolcal D (calcium supplement) to her water. So now it’s just wait and see, and hope!

Because she had a wing tear when she arrived, we don’t know if she can fly. She and pup will eventually need to go in a secure flight together, so pup can learn to catch food and safely get going, whilst we assess mum’s flight ability. That probably means a trip to Chepstow, as that is where the nearest bat flight is, to us here in west Wales! 

There is a link on our Facebook page ‘Pembrokeshire bat care’ case you can help us in our quest to raise funds for our own flight, we are incredibly grateful for any help.

We have also started having this year’s orphaned babies arriving. Two so far, both very small. They are doing ok but it’s a long and uncertain road ahead (Pups can be very tricky to keep alive when they are so tiny)

I’ve included some photos of me feeding them which give an idea of their size. NOTE: Although I am not wearing gloves in the picture with the tiniest pup, I am not touching it with my bare hands and will not be doing so. I needed to be able to assess how warm it was staying and keep it wrapped in a cloth so it would not cool too much. I couldn’t assess it through cloth AND gloves. Please never handle bats with bare hands.