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Like our page for latest news and events at EDBRR: a group that rescues, rehabilitates, and releases bats; gives talks, and has an adopt-a-bat scheme!

If you have found an injured bat or a grounded bat in the daytime please call us on 07746 743221. We are a small group of volunteers based in Poole, Dorset who are able to provide a rescue service for the public when they find a bat in trouble across the county of Dorset. Our funds are small and we rely totally on public donations for vets fees, food, housing, heat mats, incubators, large flights

etc. We love bats, and we want the world to know how special these adorable little mammals are! We give educational talks to a range of schools, groups and associations (if you'd like us to visit your group, feel free to get in contact! We ask for a small donation in return) and we attend some events with a stall featuring some of our batty merchandise; our live, licensed educational bats; and a small team of our volunteers. If you love bats too and want to help the rescue care for bats, why not send us a donation through our GoFundMe page? You might want to think about adopting one of our bats. For £24 a year (that's just £2 a month) you will receive a picture of the bat you choose to adopt along with a short piece about them, copies of all our newsletters as they come out, and updates on your bat. If you’re interested in volunteering to help us with collecting, releasing, or flying the rescue bats, please get in touch we would love to hear from you. Like our page for all the latest news and events... go on, you know you want to!

24/08/2024

170 bats in any year over 20 years has never ever been the situation until this year where we are still in August with a record number of bats! Almost every bat has come in due to being attacked by a cat sadly. Please keep cats in from dusk till dawn to save the lives of bats many of whose have not long been born.

30/07/2024

Tonight Lee and Fluffy returned to their respective homes.

17/07/2024

This evening 12 bats were at our flight with the volunteers many for the first time as they are young born this summer. We are in a unique position where we can fly many of our young bats together as they are from the same roost. Currently 7 are flying together out of a potential 11 bats all from the same roost.
There will be another smaller group of Sop pips to fly together from another local roost too later on as they are a little younger.

We are need of more volunteers to assist with flying the bats in the evenings.
If you have an evening a week you could help our expert volunteers with flying bats please give us a call. We are having by far the busiest bat pup season in our history of 20 years. A lack of good weather,insects, a heat wave at a crucial time for young pups and their mothers have all contributed to this being our busiest season ever.

03/07/2024

Another 11 bats at least on way in from Wareham.
10 are deceased from one building and the other is a juv from another regular collection place. 😢

01/07/2024

Over 60 bats in through June! Most from Wareham. Why are Sop pips in so much trouble in Wareham?

30/06/2024

We only receive bats through phoning in and can only collect if there is a driver available. We are a tiny group and over run this season.

25/06/2024

This is little Annabelle a Soprano Pipistrelle pup who was kindly rescued today and is about 3 days old. Thank you to the folks in Canford Heath for getting her into care. She is on Goat Colostrum donated by Maycottage Goatsmilk Soaps. Please support them as they donate every year and in doing so have saved hundreds of little bats. They too have a page and their stall is often out at events. Well done everyone. It takes team work to save these little ones who as adults eat 2-3,000 middies each every night for us.

20/06/2024

Yet another sop pip pup in. The finder did try to reunite but no luck yesterday evening.

19/06/2024

Tonight Tom ( Manbat) returned home successfully. He was 02/24.Today 71/24 arrived cat attacked and lactating but her pup is missing
All five Pip pups (4 Soprano Pipistrelle and 1 Common Pipistrelle ) are doing well currently. Mum and pup seem to doing ok too.

02/06/2024

18 pregnant bats of 20 from the same roost all dead due to one cat this week😢

25/05/2024

Tom the tiny pip was apparently flying lengths of the big flight this evening before the rain came in. Yay! Way to go Tom!

05/05/2024

The main carer and two recievers of bats do not do Facebook. There are clear instructions on our page I have been assured. Bats found outside hanging around or grounded need urgent care and may be carrying rabies which has been known to pass to a cat in Europe.

24/04/2024

One out and one in!
Last night BLE Keepers was released once pitch dark at 8.5C in North Dorset on the Somerset border.
Today another ‘Max’ came in this pm weighing only 5.15g and cat attacked.

19/04/2024

Bryony flew home in Blandford last night with a small audience. Also Benjamin Timothy flew off back home in Verwood. Good luck little pipistrelles as you return to your families and hunting grounds.

03/04/2024

Today was a very sad day as we had to say farewell to our dear Jethro the Noctule pictured above on our site. He was nearly 15 years old. He stopped eating and became very wheezy, Antibiotics did not solve his problems and an X-ray today showed a possible enlarged heart or problem in his left lung.
We await the post Mortem results after tomorrow to understand why he declined.
Jethro was a licensed Educational/training bat who was born over in the South West in captivity and sadly had rickets. He arrived a few years later here to become an educational bat. He had to go through ‘boot camp’ his first winter as he was very over weight being double the weight he should be. He climbed the stairs nightly to exercise and reduce his waistline dramatically.

School visits with young children were always a hit as they could hear him without needing a bat detector and he would chat and reply to young voices in the classroom. He helped show people fearing bats just how cute and beneficial bats really are converting many a misled adult to understand and cutely get to people’s hearts.

Sleep well little man and “Thank you” fly high and free forever 🌈💔

30/03/2024

Penelope the cat attacked Soprano pipistrelle was released early this morning at 01.00 it was a great release as she flew off strongly with a dry night and 7.5*C .

11/01/2024

The first bat of 2024 has now come in cat attacked and left out for over 2days in cold weather. He is on treatment and being hand fed along with a further 8 from 2023, tonight.

05/10/2023

Tonight Flappy the pipistrelle who was cat attacked three months ago was released back home.

16/09/2023

Please bear with us as we are having an unusually busy 24 hrs with a record number of bats needing to be helped. If you find a bat please follow the containment instructions on our Web page and the once your bat is secure phone 07746743221. We do not follow this page as too busy so phoning is best form of contact. Remember to speak clearly and give your contact number slowly as reception here is currently very poor for some reason. Or text your contact with a message to the phone number.
Thank you.

13/09/2023

8 bats released over the past few nights with hopefully two more to return to their homes tonight as long as they fly well at the farm flight this evening. A lot of Whiskered bats coming in over the past week for some reason. All cat attacked sadly.

03/07/2023

Natalie came in today after being found outside Dorchester Hospital. She may well have fallen off Mum as her eyes have opened this eve. She is around five days old.

23/06/2023

Tiny ‘Mischievous Mike’ was found yesterday am, escaped the shoe box, re found yesterday late afternoon, fed in rescue, taken back for a reunite attempt for his Mum to collect him.sadly plenty of interest but no Mum collected him despite him calling his heart out for her for several hours. Sadly he has returned for hand rearing with the hope of releasing him when he is independently flying and catching his own insects. There may yet be a reason as to why he was not collected that the bats know and we don’t but we will try our best as always for him. He weighed 1.51g on arrival once re found. Photos Credited to S.MacWhirter

17/06/2023

After a difficult week and many losses due to infection from cats, we released Serotine Jessie back home tonight. She has started to put weight on rapidly leading us to believe she is in pup. After flying well at the flight earlier in the evening , She flew around for five minutes then shot off back into the estate where she was found.

02/06/2023

Daisy the Serotine returned home to a lovely estate the night before last. The owner’s grandchildren all stopped playing to watch her go and learn, watch and listen to the other Serotines feeding across the lawn in front of the beautiful house.

Barry the Soprano pipistrelle flew off in Weymouth last night well too.

Tonight the plan is to release Eve, another Serotine . She is from Burton.
None of the others in care are ready for release but attend flying nightly at our Watercress Company sponsored flight. Many have been with us a good few months but are improving now the warmer weather and insects are here to encourage them to fly more.

22/05/2023

Wow! What a pm. Five bat calls came in late this pm. Four bats in and awaiting a fifth to be got out from under patio. All were pips for a change. They came in from Portland, Wimbourne, Puddletown, Ferndown and hope to hear another in Ferndown has been extradited from under a patio. Cat attacked bats every one of them 😢

19/05/2023

Finally Eve the Serotine is eating from tweezers. She loves cockchaffers but not so keen on specially fed giant mealworms. However her antibiotics are kicking in and tonight she ate the best meal she has had other than cockchaffers. Hopefully she will be attending the farm flight next week along with Daisy the Serotine.
We are going to have to fly alternate nights with two different groups of bats due to dusk flying of Serotines which have to be flown after all other bats due to infection control and as the other three bats attending the flight all fly once it is dark and do not fly at dusk readily the flying times will be alternated depending which species is attending. Hopefully we will be able to start releasing soon if they do well enough.
Eve has been cat attacked multiple times historically so we need to be sure that she is fully fit for release and not carrying a hidden problem. It is unusual for any bat to carry so many cat attack scars as well as fresh wounds. It may be we find she has a problem that is not obvious until she attends the large flight. Hopefully the volunteers will find her flying well. The concern now is for the injured two female Serotines to return to the wild as soon as possible as they may be in pup and we need them to be eating natural insect food for the nutrition of the pup if in pup.

14/05/2023

Sadly Robyn the Serotine who came in cat attacked on Friday passed away yesterday afternoon.
On a brighter note Daisy the Serotine is now self eating as of last night. She has a few more days of antibiotics and then we need to see how she fairs with so many tears in her wing in a few evenings time.

10/05/2023

Last week Chippy and Danny the Brown Longeareds went back home respectively.
Yesterday ‘Daisy’ a Serotine was found by the observant lawn mower operator on a nature loving estate near Dorchester as some of the long grass was cut. She was so very lucky to not have been mowed. Historically she had been cat attacked recently and was suffering infection and torn holes in a wing causing her to be very underweight. Daisy is being treated under advise of our wonderful vets and has eaten late last night. We hope for her to recover fully in time and to be able to return her back as soon as she is well enough.

09/04/2023

Two bats released Friday night at last. The third one ready will now have to wait for the better weather promised next weekend. 7 more to attend flying in the large flight to regain their fitness all after being cat attacked, as and when the weather allows again.

16/03/2023

Any wishing to help us by volunteering as we are all volunteers to collect&transport bats into care or assistants hands on learn to care for bats, please email [email protected] and our volunteer co ordination will be in touch with you.

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