By Fiona Bassett | Project Manager
We have had a busy and long winter season, caring for about 300+ adults and juveniles that have managed to get themselves into trouble. We have released out last group with only 5 bats still hanging around and we are support feeding them.
Hopefully these last stragglers will leave soon and then we can begin the maintenance work around the facility, in preparation for the pup season that will start in around 6 weeks. We need to give the cages a thorough clean, repaint the cage floor surfaces and generally tidy up the surrounding area.
One exciting new addition to the facility that we hope to get done will be a concrete pathway. During the height of pup season we can be cutting between 50 and 80kgs of fruit daily to feed the little cherubs in care. This is between 350 - 560kgs of fruit every week - converting this for you -770 to 1235lbs! This is a huge amount of fruit we have to move from the cutting room to the aviaries, which currently we carry up to the cages in large buckets- hard on the backs of our volunteers. A concrete pathway from the cutting room to the cages will allow us to use a trolley to take the fruit right up to the cage door.
We have a just completed our yearly training course, which saw a number of Sydney Wildlife bat carers doing their mandatory refresher course and 5 new flying fox carers (hooray!), just in time for pup season.
Thank you so much for all your generous donations that enable us to continue to rescue, rehabilitate and release back into the wild our beautiful bats. We could not do it without your help.
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