Volunteers for our Wildlife Education & Rehabilitation Program were able to put animals back into the natural world today, under the supervision of Wildlife Specialist Derek Skapes.
A Brown Snake and a Big Brown Bat, which both spent the winter here, were waiting for suitable spring conditions to allow their return to the wild. The tiny, young snake was found in a suburban basement in January. The Big Brown Bat was disturbed during winter hibernation. Both were released in the woods near Lake Erie Nature & Science Center.
If you don’t know about our refrigerator bat hibernation technique you can read all about it on this 2008 blog post or in this news release. The Big Brown released today was squirming and ready to go when our volunteer attached it to a tree. It immediately fle
w away.
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