WEWS-TV, WTAM-radio and Cleveland Plain Dealer Animals in the News columnist Donna Miller helped spread the word about the bats we have hibernating in our rehab refrigerators this winter. Miller posted on her blog at Cleveland.com. New Channel 5 aired the story at 6 p.m. and posted a cool bat slideshow and an online story of the big brown bats and silver haired bats who came to Lake Erie Nature & Science Center after their hibernation was disturbed. WTAM News Director, Darren Toms also did some bat blogging at Newsradio 1100's website.
During its regular "awake time" for feeding, we also snapped the
photo above of the Big Brown Bat eating mealworms, as well as one of the same bat being hydrated by Lake Erie Nature & Science Center Wildlife Rehabilitation Coordinator Megan Tadiello. A Silver Haired is pictured below. After three days of chowing down and drinking, the bats will be back in the fridge for three weeks. We'll repeat the cycle until the bats natural food source (bugs!) returns outdoors and they can be released (probably April or early May.)
photo above of the Big Brown Bat eating mealworms, as well as one of the same bat being hydrated by Lake Erie Nature & Science Center Wildlife Rehabilitation Coordinator Megan Tadiello. A Silver Haired is pictured below. After three days of chowing down and drinking, the bats will be back in the fridge for three weeks. We'll repeat the cycle until the bats natural food source (bugs!) returns outdoors and they can be released (probably April or early May.) Check out Megan's 
original blog entry about the hibernating bats here.
original blog entry about the hibernating bats here.
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