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East Dorset Bat Rescue and Rehabilitation 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!

19/09/2024

Carmella,Norman,Jeffers, Lowen, Biscuit, Polaris,Pip,+hopefully tonight Lisbon &Tokyo released this past few busy nights.

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.

This is little Annabelle a Soprano Pipistrelle pup who was kindly rescued today and is about 3 days old. Thank you to th...
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.

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