Uninvited But Welcome Visitor Tonight

Earlier this evening my hubby was outside with Rocky and called me to him "Quickly". I panicked a bit thinking something had happend to Rocky and went running outside. I could hardly believe what I saw. Must appologise now there are no pics, at the moment, as it all happened very quickly.

On the floor beside our wheelie bin was a tiny little bat. I managed to get Rocky back in the flat and closed the back door, before he decided to "play with it". My hubby went back inside to get something to put it in and/or cover it with.

The little bat then thought it a good idea to run away, sorry fly away but we noticed he had a damaged wing and was struggling to fly. We managed to get him in a box that hubby had made some holes in and put a small dish of water in there too.

Hubby then phoned around a few places to get hold of the appropriate person who could come and collect Bruce as I have called him. Eventually at about 9.15 tonight we had a phone call from a guy who will collect him tomorrow afternoon.

Such excitement for a Wednesday evening. That is the closest I have ever been to a bat, we have seen them flying around ouside our flat before about a year ago. I think it is a pipistrelle variety but not certain.

I don't no anything about bats but Bruce had a lucky rescue

They're so beautiful, aren't they? When we lived in Wales one came into the house & flew around a bit. Eventually it went outside.

If it's a tiny, mouse-like bat then yes, it's a pipistrelle.

They are lovely and very fascinating creatures, i hope he will be OK

Id be scared to touch it incase it bit me and drank my bloooood hahaha. Bats are cute but i wouldn't touch one.

Apparently there is a very tiny chance of catching rabies from them, thats why I let hubby do the catching although he did use a towel. Bruce is very safely in a box now awaiting his ride to wherever tomorrow afternoon.

Good luck Bruce.
Interesting little things but wouldn't want to get bitten by one.

Good luck Bruce , hope you find a way to get to Gotham City

The do look pretty cute but I am not fond of them

I love bats, they are so beautiful. Bruce is a lucky boy that you found him and took him in.
We used to get them coming into my work now and again and it wasn't easy to help them get out because of the high ceilings. It's great reading these comments because I usually get very strange looks from people when I say how beautiful they are

We had a quick peak at Bruce this morning and he is still OK. He survived the night in his shoe box OK. We were advised to feed a small amount of dog food so hubby went up to Tesco late last night to get a small tin of Cesar for him. We put a tiny amount on a small dish for him. That was one thing we didn't have have in the cupboard.

I'm not sure how they get on with a damaged wing though. He semms to have a tear down his left wing, I've no idea if this will heal or not, I'm guessing probably not.

Still waiting for the batman to phone, he is supposed to ring back sometime this morning, but this morning is almost over. If he hasn't phoned by lunchtime will give him a ring back.

Aw, poor little thing. I don't know if their wings heal well or not. But if it doesn't he'll probably be kept by the batman for the rest of his life.

I believe the wings can heal. They have been around a very long time so they must have evolved some type of healing capacity.

Poor wee guy. I hope his wing can heal.

They are cool! We have larger bats that live here under the causeway and they come out in huge flocks in the evening. Their wings can heal and the rescue centers help give them a safe place to rehabilitate and then they release them into the local nesting place. Glad Rocky didn't get to him!

hope little Bruce will be okay !

we get bats around here and when walking at night in summer you hear them flying around and sometimes see them with the torch on... they are amazing critters.

Did batman call?

Well Bruce is safely on his way home with the batlady. Hubby phoned the guy back this morning as we hadn't heard anything from him. His wife worked at the local police HQ in Kempston a town near us and we arranged to meet her in the car park there this afternoon.

So we took a very careful car ride over, passing on the way what looked like a major accident on the other side of a dual carriageway, phewwwwwwww, glad it wasn't in out direction. There were 2 fire appliances and several ambulances and police cars, it looked quite bad.

When we met the lady she said he looks quite big for his type, which is Nathusius' Pipistrelle.

Anyways Bruce is now safely with the bat people who know how to care for him, good luck little fella.

Good luck Bruce - hope your wing heals quickly!

We have pips roosting in the front half of the roof, and whiskered in the back half (one of only a few places in Cheshire where they are both so close, according to 'Batman' a few years back)

We used to have to call Batman out so often we ended up with our own batbox, and basic lessons on how to handle a dazed and confused bat

Any news on Bruce?

We never did hear anything further on Bruce, just hope he is OK and flying around somewhere very happily.