My Watchful Lioness has only taken a year to get to this stage. Twixt caring for family with health issues/hospital appts. plus numerous bats needing rescue and rebuilding my bat flight....am now painting again...yay! My Lioness Portrait is an acrylic painting and...
Collected a bat from the vet today. I knew if she was still inside this unsealed box, she wasn't in good condition. The huge box contained two short sticks, a pip, and a small dish of water. Sadly, as anticipated, she had a broken shoulder and a fractured humerus....
Photo of Bryony on arrival. She was seen during the daytime sitting on a wall and was still sitting there the following afternoon. She was delivered to me covered in mites, stiff as a board, and weighing 2.66g. She should have been at least 4.50g. She slowly...
Iggy fast asleep after having his lunch. Barbastelles have beautiful long silky browny-black fur flecked with white tips. GOOD NEWS Years ago we placed two bat boxes on trees outside our garden gate. We have just learned that one is absolutely stuffed full of...
Iggy, Barbastelle, waiting for his meal this a.m. I am now sitting in the dark, all wrapped up against the cold and damp, and counting my blessings. I am a lucky girl to have the support and help needed, to help me care for my rescued bats. With more bats...
Iggy having a rest in one of the bat boxes after flying in the bat flight. Iggy's weight has gradually increased since his arrival and I let him guide me as to when he's had enough to eat. He is in a 38gallon: 42 x 42 x 76 cm flex. We started on five meals per day and...
My new soft flooring. 🙂 FROM JAN. 2022 MONTHLY PURCHASES: Mealworms (Jan) £7.33 Mealworms (Feb) £7.76 Mealworms (Feb) £5.93 Oralade (Feb) £5.85 Mealworms (March) £7.76 Feeding Dish + Tweezers £8.79 Mealworms (March 18th) £5.93 Mealworms (April 2nd) £5.00 VetArk Zol...
Wildlife spotting again in an almost empty hospital car park. Gull, magpie, squirrels, and jackdaw for company. Good to see a couple of nestboxes in the trees. Almost a clear run-through to get to the hospital due to 'the funeral', with hardly a car on the road. On...
Before and after 'Koumori' photos. 30th August - Koumori on arrival and in need of help. A very unhappy, dehydrated, underweight, and poorly bat. 21st September - A lovely transformation. After weeks of warmth, care, and good food - Koumori, our lovely healthy Brown...
Until approx. 5 years ago I would see 50-100 chaffinches pecking around underneath an avenue of beech trees close to home. Now there are only a few, hence I was delighted to see 2-3 pairs of chaffinches in our garden over the past month. I wondered why so few. I...