When rescuing baby bats, its always important to try to think about re-uniting a baby with its mother, if at all possible.
There is a 2-3 day window when this may be possible. The longer the delay, the greater chance that the mother’s milk has already dried up. Or she may have already flown away from the area for whatever reason and left her baby behind.
This is a story of one of those rare occasions where re-uniting mum with bub turned out to be possible.
A baby microbat was found on grassy ground beneath some eaves of a house. It was rescued and cared for about 24hrs to warm it up, rehydrate it and check it for any injuries. As it turned out, the baby was not harmed by the fall.
The circumstances in which it had been found led our microbat rescue team to think the mother may still be close by. So on the 3rd day after rescue, they went back to see if they could find her.
Well…they did. With great success and a bit of tall ladder climbing and posturing, they were able to locate the residual colony in the corrugated steel walls of the house.
With much chirping and microbat communication, the little youngster scurried through the tiny gaps int he sheets of steel to return to the colony.
A rare occurrence indeed….
