It was a bat emergency in Bakersfield.
WildCare’s Director of Animal Care, Melanie Piazza received a call on Saturday morning that hundreds of baby Mexican Free-tailed bats had fallen from their roost under a freeway overpass.
The temperatures in Bakersfield reached 118 last weekend, and baby bats were tumbling onto the sweltering concrete. Someone had spotted the many fallen baby bats on the ground and alerted wildlife rescuers in that area.
There are only two independent rehabilitators able to care for bats in that region, and no wildlife hospital like WildCare. This emergency was far more than they could handle alone.
They put out the call for assistance to wildlife care centers across California, including WildCare.The photos below show the roost, located in the cracks of the freeway underpass, and the baby bats on the ground before they were rescued.
