Katy's Wildlife Rescues

18/08/2026

04/08/2026

30/07/2026

My little 'against all odds' bat, lost his mother several weeks ago. She seemed to know I could take it from there, just after I had started to add insects to his diet, she gave up🥺
The bitter sweet is that she took the awful decision that I would have had to make, with an unreleasable bat, out of my hands.
She was the most incredible bat.
Coming in on May 9th with part of her wing torn off, stabilising and carrying a pup to birth and rearing him up to weaning age. I'm honoured to have met such a resilient little soul❤️
Still sad. But the silver lining is this tough little fella whom I finished rearing and weaning was saved from certain death and is now in the world🦇🥰

30/07/2026

This little House Martin was brought to my door. Unfortunately my schedule doesn't allow for rearing birds - an intensive round the clock job. I was able to save the little fella and get him feeding for the weekend.
My associates and rescue heroes in Wildlife Rescue Cork courteously took him in to join their flock.
They are doing amazing work and taking in so many animals for Kerry these last few seasons.
Please support if you can❤️

23/07/2026

Absolutely worth celebrating, thank you KWR, for all the lives, teaching and for giving us hope☘️🐾🚑❤️✨️🎉

25/06/2026

Susan has been looking after the extremely young orphan bat pups from the weekends rescue.
Please consider supporting her with the arduous undertaking of rearing these young animals❤️ It took me nearly an hour to feed the pups per round of feeding, including staying up late, waking in the middle of the night, and early am. With so many more animals in her care now the need of help and support is great.
Consider donations or a family or group project of summer fundraising event- great for and with kids.. anything at all❤️🦇☀️

21/06/2026

On Friday evening, I was called about 3 bats in a guest house that's used as an office - apparently two were flying and one was deceased.
Before I got there, the house owner called to say the bats had gone, but without open windows, so I thought it best to go and check anyway.
It was just as well I did, a common pipistrelle maternity colony was suffering a catastrophic collapse! I found a weak mother and pup, then another pup and another, all through the house, until I found the entrance with 10 pups who shuffled themselves back into the cavity, thankfully, as there were so many around the house already.

I retrieved 9 weak adult females. 4 dead pups and mothers. 5 barely alive pups in glue traps ( I was able to remove them all gently, but not all survived the night.) And 12 weak pups from around the house.

My wildlife rescue had a crossover into using my professional licenses and experiences, along with advice from my mentor, Susan of Bat Rehabilitation Ireland to resolve the breach and take 26 bats into care.
Last night, 11 went back to the roost, 9 adults, and 2 with their pups.

Today, Susan is taking in the surviving 11 orphaned pups for me, as I am in my NPWS work placement during the week and cannot give the care they need.

A final note; the woman reports finding one or two bats every year dead inside. The breach has been there. What was different this year were the glue traps. The 5 pups stuck for hours to days calling in distress would have been enough ignition for this very sad event.
Despite having a busy weekend planned and having to cancel it, I'm glad I went.
It was very very lucky I did. The house owner is happy to live with the bats in that roof and I'm making sure the building is secured for future maternity seasons.

19/06/2026

The female Soprano pip with the badly damaged wing from May 10th has done a remarkable thing🥹💕 She stabilised, learned to self-feed and carried her healthy pup to full term.
3.5 weeks ago I had the joy of seeing the tiny pink pup for the 1st time. I left her well alone then, just daily checks and food and water of course.
I've finally moved them to a larger net room and gave him a weigh, the pup is 3.46g and he will begin flaps and starting to try to fly in the coming weeks. I'll help to wean him on to insects and he'll train in flight room before release.
It's a truly beautiful thing despite the sad undertone of the mothers irreparable injury, I'll keep her on to ensure wing repair attempts are exhausted before anything further. Nothing in a rush.

It's a moment to be happy about. Well done mother bat❤️❤️❤️🦇

14/06/2026

I had this tiny little male pipistrelle pup for a few days. He was luckily found and brought in with enough time to reintroduce fluids and begin feeds. The finder was great at the in-between care. Keeping him warm and offering tiny amount of fluids.
You can see the emaciation on the intake picture, tiny waist and hips jutting out, compared to after food.
He named him Donal.

Having alarms set in the middle of the night for frequent feeds this week really brings home the amount of dedicated care Susan, Bat Rehabilitation Ireland gives to her bat pups in care. My schedule is shifting and so she's taking on bats that I can't for the summer.
Please follow her page and offer support if you can❤️❤️❤️