Rescuing a baby flying-fox from under powerlines; this is Picnic
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Picnic îs an orphan female Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who was noticed on her dead mother on powerlines. The energy company got her down and called for a bat rescuer.
So many bats have been electrocuted on powerlines this season; so many babies orphaned. The babies often survive their mum's electrocution, being insulated by her fur. Depending on their position on mum's body when mum is electrocuted, they may burnt in varying degrees; if they were suckling at the time, they often have oral burns. Fortunately Picnic (or NicNic, as Maggie calls her) came out of the disaster unscathed, apart from losing her mum. She knows things are not as they're supposed to be, but she has adapted really well to being in care with human mums.
She's gone off to a carer now and is a charming little furry person.
YAY, a survivor. 
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I found your videos in December and January while I was recovering from covid and love how you and Maggie care for the babies as well as the adult batties. I never realized how cute the bats are. I live in the Pacific Northwest in the USA, Washington State and we have little brown bats that help with bugs out where I live. These little creatures need to be more respected and cared about
Thanks Joyce. I hope you're fully recovered from CoVid now and didn't get Long Covid.
Meg
A handful of joy that has now a new chance on life. Thx so much ❤️
Thanks to you Meg baby got a chance to live. Love the ending with Magpies.
Hi ya, Meg! I think 'squidgy' is a perfectly acceptable medical term. I love the way you talk to them and they respond. Hope all's going well there!
What a little angel Picnic is; I love her name. 😊❤
RIP sweet mumma...🦇💜
"Oooo...yummy" ...power line worker was so sweet❤️
He was a really nice guy. I've given him my number so he can call me direct if he needs to.
So happy little Picnic survived. She"s adorable. Rip Picnic"s mom😥
That's totally break my heart.. can bear the view of dead animals... i have to pass over the view of the dead mama... Happy the baby is alive... Bats are amazing and important to our world! I just can't understand why peoples still hate them....
Maybe it's more fear than hate. I was wary of bata too, simply because they can Cary some very unpleasant diseases. But this channel really helped me a lot to understand and overcome that aversion.
Poor mama and poor baby 😢 thanks Meg for all you do for them ! 🙏💙
A huge thank you to the sweet power lines worker who .wanted to learn about little Picnic! She's a cutie!😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️
I've met him before over a rescue; he's a very noice man
He did seem lovely and very interested…got to love that all day any day.🖤🇨🇦
Ohh poor mum💔 Glad they contacted you to save sweet lil one ❤️🦇
Picnic is rather calm compared to many others. She has the sweetest little face. Grow strong little one!
She was a bit squidgy, which is my technical term for not being very well; she was dehydrated, probably bruised, her eyes were squinty not bright and lustrous, and she just looked sad and miserable.
Poor little thing probably sad because mother was no longer showing any affection. Just my guess since they are so social sensitive. Why does mother not care for me?
Mom was so beautiful, hope all will be better for her little girl ❤ ! A good life and stay out of dangers !
I don't care how often you find a mother dead with a live baby aboard. That's got to be a heart wrenching thing.
Nonetheless, you carry on, like a good soldier, and do everything you can for the living baby.
You, Meg, are, at the very least, saint material.
I think of Meg as the Fairy Bat Mother…and she sure meets the standards.🖤🇨🇦
Hi Lori; there is nothing saintly about me.
I like doing this and I like to rescue bats. Some die; this, to me, is just a part of rescue life and I deal with it well without liking it.
I don't have an attachment to the bats who are DOA, so it doesn't worry me. Nothing I can do can affect their outcome, so I concentrate on the babies whom I can help.
R.I.P. Mummi how brave and loyal u are 🦇❤️
That baby looks like an octopus so adorable. 🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤
All these babies are so precious.
Such a little baby girl. So beautiful!
So happy you got a survivor. NicNic is a cutie. 🥰🦇💕❤️👍👍
I like the different perspective with the camera on the table.
I'm trying to work out a way to get clearer footage when I'm working with the bats, but it means I have to remember to keep looking to see if I'm in the field of view so it's not as simple as the vid glasses, however it is better and clearer footage
What an exquisitely beautiful Mum, all platinum and silver.🌹Picnic is adorable, and glad she is taking to care well. There have been so many electrocutions this round, but the babies are coming through well.🥂Your bird family are getting very vocal as the younguns are growing fast. Awesome.🖤🇨🇦
the birds have a huge sense of their own entitlement... apparently I accommodate this.
@@Megabattie I do think they are appreciative though. I was a bit late with the raccoon’s treat the other evening, and there were five of them on the oak tree, all looking at me…if the Mum had a watch, she would have been tapping it lol.🖤🇨🇦
I Love Bats and this is always a nerve-wracking treat. wondering what horrible situations you will find the little sweethearts in but knowing they will be rescued with a chance at life! xxx 🥰😇
Oh dear. What a strong orphan baby season. Mop thank you for calling in rescue for baby bat left orphaned by another power line.
I love when you and Maggie are bottle feeding and laugh together.
Like the birds and most babies, they have a tremendous appetite. Glad Picnic is feeling better.
Thank you for taking care of the babies 😢you’re a great mom❤
Yay, go on to a great life, Picnic!
Hello from Springfield, TN, USA. I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and as a fellow animal lover I really do enjoy your videos and admire you for the work you're doing! Keep up the good deeds and be blessed!
I live in Long Island NY and found this channel last year during the height of the pandemic. I became friends with Meg. She is such a good loving person, I offered to send blankets and other things. She declined the offer. The offer still stands. I love her she's great.
Hi Sosha, good to have you as a viewer.
Welcome to Megabattie,
I put lots of information in the descriptions under the videos - so if you have questions, look for the answers there first. I also put the fate of the animal if I know it, at the time I put the video up. I may put updates there later if I find out what happened to the animal after it has left my care.
There is also a Happy Outcomes playlist if you want to only watch videos where the bat survives; this is a real life channel and you get the good, the bad, the ugly and distressing, and even my oopsies.
You can find further videos on an individual bat by searching in the YT search bar for Megabattie/and the name of the bat you want to follow.
There is a community tab (like a mini Facebook page) on my channel - if you go to Megabattie home page, there is a menu bar across the top under the cover pic. Home, Videos, Playlists, Community, About. If you click on the community tab there are posts there where I can share pix and talk about some of the videos I put up and answer questions.
Thanks Ellen. I really don't need more stuff but it's so kind of you to offer.
@@Megabattie Anytime.... I will always be there to help.
What a little sweetheart. ❤
Good bye mommy. That moment, I feel so sad.
MegaBattie you're a special person 💗 and I love watching the way you care for these bubs
I'm so glad to see more of your videos...
I have missed watching them...
So happy baby bat survived. Your birds are cute too🕊️
What a sweetie. Best LIfe to her! Thank you, Meg, for making that possible for her.
So glad that the baby still survived what a cutey !!
We have the same birds in the netherlands i found one baby last year and nursed him to health they are so clever and smart most people dont know that about them!! Love and Kiss from me from the Netherlands
What strange noises they make. It sounds like someone is blowing on a kazoo!
THey're funny and smart
Yes Wolf, they make a horrible raspy noise which is very irritating; I suspect it's to irritate their parents so they get fed more often to shut them up.
They feed the noisiest chick first
@@Megabattie Then, clearly it is working for them lol.🖤🇨🇦
@@Megabattie you have a great sense of humor. One of the many reasons I watch your channel.
YAY! Good luck darlin sky pup! 🦇❤❤❤🦇
-Picnic is adorable. Glad she's no longer squidgy.
-Is Eyebrow the "babies'" big sister?
Yes she's the big sister (or brother - I still haven't figured out her sex)
Picnic is so cute, the way she just curls up in your hand with her little foot holding onto your thumb 🥰🦇🥰
I wish there was something we could do about the bats coming into contact with the power-lines, it's so sad.
yeah, get rid of the power lines.
I am so very sorry Mumbat didn't survive, damned power lines!!🤬😓💔Picnic🦇 is so adorable and will be with the BEST Mums Meg & Maggie🤗💕 I love when you stress Bats are not Pets!! Bats are lovely & vital souls, helping Ecco System🥰
Hooray a survivor!
I love it also when the mops show genuine interest .
Ahh , the sweet sound of baby maggies 😊
How sweet! ❤
What a cutie pie.... So sweet!!!
How terrifying for the little one.😢☹️😫
Aww Picnic I would have the hardest time releasing you beautiful baby.
The thing is, there are always more babies needing care and sorting out, so it's awesome to more a baby along to the next stage so they can go for release; it's such an awesome buzz to let them go when they're ready
Goddammit... Poor old mummy bat. At first i thought she was ok until the camera kept cutting back and you realised she wasn't moving. Poor little girl. 😥
Go fly high batty, and please don't come back, no matter how much Meg loves you. Hurray I love survivor's. 🍁🦇🇨🇦
This video just made my day! ❤️😊
Little cute heap of tangled limbs.
I didn't know that young Magpies feed their younger siblings, that's interesting.
They're a family. They're very family oriented and the older sibs feed the younger ones and help out.
@@Megabattie I’m sure they want the noisy kids to shut up too lol. Impetus to help stuff their mouths faster.🖤🇨🇦
Smart birds!
The hydro workers are amazing to care about the bats.
the electricity workers are like most people - some love the bats, some hate them, and some don'g care either way.,
Watching this video I saw the poor dead mum who seemed to look at you handling her baby!!! I"m' glad the baby is a survivor now a new life is starting for her. Best wishes little one, be strong. RIP poor mum
The baby birds brought my cat to me all concerned ;).
Concerned or excited?
There is a female magpie that forages for food on my lawn at the moment . I expect there will be a screaming fledgling joining her anytime now.
Or are your ones currawongs? The young sound exactly the same.
They're magpies; Harry Currawong hasn't brought his chicks down to meet me yet.
The Currawongs have orange eyes and they're all black except for white under their tail. Magpies black and white but the chicks have brown and mottled patches until they get their adult plumage.
Your birds are lovely and beautiful area with stepping stones too!! They got my Cat's attention!!🤗💕
Well shoot...now I love magpies!
Me too
Absolutely precious ❤️
Such a good girl! ✨️🦇❣️
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Poor Mom! Is there no way to get those power lines covered with rubber to keep them from being so dangerous? The bats have an important job in our eco system, they pollinate! Surely the country can do something? Fundraiser to save the bats?
There are ways. In fact when I visit Australia I often see insulation on sections of power line where there is a risk of human contact ,such as near accessible roofs .
The same could be fitted where there is repeated bat electrocutions.
It would be better to protect and replant native forest so that starving bats didn't have to enter urban areas to find food
The powerlines are gradually being buried over the next (they say 20 but I think more likely 50) years. All new developments have underground power.
Rubber coating the wires would add an acceptable weight to the lines, and to retrofit it would be tricky.
Nobody cares about the bats here; politicians use them as political footballs to curry favour with people who hate the bats and want them culled and/or removed from urban areas.
Paul, the energy companies will bundle the wires in hotspots, however they want the council to pay for them, then there is a 5 year bunfight with mudslinging, football throwing backwards and forwards with nobody getting anything done. Then it fades away unless some local resident gets behind it and continually harasses both council and company. I don't have that in me; I'll wait till they bury them,
Apparently it's about $10,000 to bundle the wires between each set of poles...
I always have a moment of anxiety when the babies get examined. So worried that they will have to be euthanized.
I go into it with the attitude that they will be fine, and I'm always surprised when they're not.
Hey Meg.. Seems to be a lot of babies lately.
Yes it's been a busier baby season than usual with more to come.
@@Megabattie So unfortunate.
@@ellenburkheimer6433 It is unfortunate, but a huge number of babies are making it this season compared to some others.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Well that is a good thing.
RIP Mum. 🙏 💜🙏
Hate those dang killer power lines.
The powerlines are gradually being buried over the next (they say 20 but I think more likely 50) years. All new developments have underground power.
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Muito fofo
I love this
Hi
I was wondering what kind of birds were they, near the end of your video.
I've never seen birds like that.
Thank you 🙂
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What a sweet little sky puppy! 😍🦇
Is it just me, or is she a little small for two weeks? Maybe she's just extra scrunched up, making her look smaller than she actually is.
It's just you though she does look little in the pix; they're mostly all 3-4 weeks at this stage so your eye is attuned to the larger pups.
Has there ever been a push to bury power lines in Australia?
The powerlines are gradually being buried over the next (they say 20 but I think more likely 50) years. All new developments have underground power.
@@Megabattie It’s a start at least.🖤🇨🇦
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Can you explain to me why when you get the babies back ,you check them over and give them fluids but not feed them straight away? xxx
We generally don't know what injuries the baby has, if any. When they're cold and shocked, they can't absorb food from their stomach; in shock, the body shuts down the stomach as an unnecessary metabolic expense and not required until the situation settles down. If you're full of adrenaline in an emergency situation, you don't stop to eat anything...
The glucose is absorbed from their gums, and the fluids are absorbed from their subcutaneous tissue, and once the adrenaline wears off and they do a wee, we know things are starting to work and we can start feeding them.
If they are cold and you feed them, they can regurgitate fluid into their lungs which can be fatal. If they're shocked and you feed them, they can do the same,.
they shore are grabby. He He
how did the baby not get electrocuted while the mom did? I thought the physical contact wouldve carried the current to both
The baby is usually insulated by mum's fur; she will have had a shock as well but it would have been tangential. If she was suckling at the time she would have had oral burns and if her wingtips or feet were touching mum in the path of the shock she probably would have burns there, but she was lucky she was unscathed.
I didn't ask if she was on the top lines (the streetlight lines) which is lower voltage I think.
go fruitarian 💚🦇
All mom bats are death, baby bats are sweet and poor little souls!
Lol dinosaurs on your patio
Pterodactyls
@@Megabattie 😂
Picnic wasn't having a picnic.
Nope, she wasn't
Do you know why there have been so many electrocutions lately? Is it a food supply issue that makes them forage closer to humans? Just wondering if there is some explanation for it, or if it is just random statistics at play.
Edit: Also, I LOLed at the ending part of this video, with Eyebrows. Everything in Australia is either bigger and/or louder than here in the US.
In all seriousness, though, it is interesting to see how the birds interact and the functional purpose that the calls serve.
I don't know why cmshap. The bats are coming in in reasonable condition, so it can't be a food supply issue. There is plenty of flowering after all the rain but the food value is reduced because the nectar and pollen gets washed out.
I don't know why most of the powerlines mums with bubs are on the ground either; I can understand after strong winds, but I can't understand why so many have fallen off, and why so many babies are surviving and not burnt when other years I get horribly burnt babies and they're still on their mums on the lines, and it takes forever to get them off by the energy companies.
And yes, the magpies give me a great deal of pleasure watching them and meeting the new chicks. Eyebrows is my fave, but Grumps the dad (who has had an accident and lost a heap of feathers and skin on his forehead which is now healing without feathers) entertains me with his getting away from his chicks and stuffing his face with mealworms mode.
@@Megabattie That is interesting, because I recently discovered this bit of information about bats:
"[Their] knees face backwards. When they relax, special tendons lock the toes and talons in place, so they do not exert energy while hanging."
So I get why you brought up the fact that they are oddly falling from power lines. I am no biologist, but I do know that electric shock tends to freeze up muscles.
Edit: I'm sorry, I only just saw your post on the Community page about how busy you are. Feel free to ignore me until you have time later to respond.
I just wanted to know if what I quoted above is actually true, and if that is why you are perplexed as to why adult bats are falling after being electrocuted.
@@cmshap I know all about the 180º hip rotation of their legs. They have lower leg tendon sheath which have corrugations, and when weight is on their legs the tendon sheath stretches and the corrugations grip the tendons, which locks them. In order to actually let go, they have to take the weight off the leg (and tendon) so they can unlock the foot. They learn how to unlock each foot alternately if they are climbing.
It has been windy so that could be a reason for them being off powerlines. Some bats can hang on powerlines, dead, for uptown 3 months till they decay enough to fall or be blown off.
I don't understand why so many babies are surviving without burns, and I don't understand why most of them are on the ground.
It is probably just random statistics.
@@Megabattie Thanks for responding, and yes I didn't think I was telling you anything you haven't already known for many years. I was just following up on your previous comment because when you mention things like this I often search for more information on the subject.
Also, I think it is amazing that you respond to every single question in these videos. I certainly don't expect that because other YT channel owners I subscribe to do not do this. So thank you for taking the time, even when you don't have time to spare.
@@cmshap Busy at the moment, but I do TRY.
Talk in a few days when I have moved my squidgy babies along to other carers. Driving them north tomorrow then theoretically I will only have 2, which is totally subject to change without prior notice...
Thank goodness for Maggie who keeps the home fires burning while I drive around NSW.