Western Pipistrelle Bat on Front Porch

This little bat (Pipistrellus hesperus or Western Pipistrelle Bat) wound up on my front porch a week or two ago. My guess is that he flew into my screen door and was stunned by the impact. He wound up spending the day on my front porch and apparently flew off at twilight. (As usual I ruin a perfectly good video with one of my strange and demented songs!!! Muhahahahahaha!!! That's supposed to be an evil laugh!)

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Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• pipistrelle
• bat
• pipistrellus
• hesperus
• flying
• mammal
• desert
• critter

[whoviantales]

regardless if it was a "gentle nudge" the poor thing was obviously at it's wits end..not enjoying it. just cause you think it'll make a good youtube video isn't a good excuse. cause it's not a good youtube video, not at all. can't even watch a few seconds of it and have to turn it off.

[blackturtleshow]

@whoviantales Thanks for the comment and the view. Hopefully you rated the video also. Thumbs up or thumbs down, it doesn't matter! Any activity is good activity! Thanks again!!!

[mhartsfield]

really? did you have to keep poking that  poor thing?

[blackturtleshow]

@mhartsfield Really?!! It was a gentle nudge, don't exaggerate!

[wingedsonar]

@blackturtleshow You didn't answer my question. Instead of trying to call anyone, do anything helpful, you chose to poke a distressed animal with a stick. "It's too far" is no excuse to not even try to call anyone to you for help. Did you know rehabbers of endangered animals or others will sometimes travel hundreds of miles to save a dwindling species or a common one regardless? Now you know. For future reference and future action.

Put down the stick next time and do something useful.

[wbwg]

@igotbored44

Only the incessant poking with the stick.

[wingedsonar]

@blackturtleshow No excuse. And WNS is wiping out species faster than those in the know can get the watch list updated. Little Browns are all but destroyed, and do you see them on the list as endangered? There are none even left! Human lists take time and money they don't care enough to give time and money to.

Again, put down the stick. No more "gently tapping" downed animals. Make a phone call or send out an email to bat lists and do something about it.

[blackturtleshow]

@wingedsonar Poked? More like gently tapped, if even that! Half the time I was just dangling some spider web that was stuck to the end of the stick in front of it. Also, from what I've been able to find on the web, the Western Pipistrelle is not at all a threatened species. It's not even on a watch list!

[blackturtleshow]

@wingedsonar It's a heck of a long ways to the nearest vet from where I live!

[wingedsonar]

@Lotus201877 Untrue, many see as well as humans, other than color detection.

[wingedsonar]

"Apparently" flew off? That poor scared thing! Take animals to rehabilitators or vets instead of poking them with sticks. When bats are alone and downed, it's not normal. How do you know it wasn't carried off by a dog or cat?

Just do the right thing, and look up who to call for local aid with bats. Right now, they're dwindling in numbers, and it does affect us directly with how slow these flying pest-eaters' numbers recover/don't from WNS.