Sorting out heat stress bats: these are the Shoalhaven 6

The Shoalhaven area has been hit by a series of disasters towards the end of the 2019 during baby season. Firstly there was a mass baby abandonment which we think was from mass starvation of the mothers who left to try to save themselves when they were too weak to carry their babies and feed them further. Then after the drought and the bushfires which decimated their local food supply, they were hit by bushfires, which made the situation much worse. On top of that, there were some massively hot days which finished off many of the survivors. Bats were falling out of the trees, dead, but many were mums with babies on them to whom they had given the last of their own body fluids in an effort for them to survive (in lactation). The upshot was hundreds of abandoned, starving or heat stressed babies. These bats have gone to carers all over the state and further north. I take babies who need intensive care, then look after them till they start flying or otherwise growing out of my space. H