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Small team of volunteers specialising in the rehab of bats and occasionally other small UK wildlife

29/10/2025

New Patient Arrival - Say hello to Walnut 👋

Walnut is a male hedgehog who on arrival weighed 150 grams, he is believed to be approximately 4 weeks old 🦔 Walnut was found wandering alone during the day time and is underweight for this time of year.

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22/10/2025

Baby Bats Batch 1 Update

Our first Batch of 12 baby bats were released from our soft release bat flight cage at Dean Farm Trust in mid-August.

Our flight cage enables us to provide supplementary food and water alongside safe places to roost whilst these babies make their first flights into the wider world.

This year whilst we were between batches, we were able to use our flight cage camera to capture some of the bats returning to the cage after a night away.

Under licence our carers are able to open the bat boxes on the outside of the cage and assess any bats within. The daytime photos and video were taken one week after the bats release. At this time 8 of our first batch were still hanging around. A quick health check and they were all returned to the box just as the rain started.

Lastly we would like to say a big thank you to for their continued support with the flight cage and allowing us to release the baby bat pups in such a wonderful location 💕

21/10/2025

New Patient Arrival and Release - Say hello and goodbye to Papaya👋

Papaya is a female Brown Long-eared bat that was roosting unsuitability on a outside wall with no cover from the elements.

When her finder contacted us, we could see from the photo provided that Papaya had been soaked through and was looking underweight. This was confirmed on her assessment upon admission. Papaya spent nearly a week with her carer picking up her weight to a better level before being released 🦇

Did you know that Brown long-eared bats have ears nearly as long as the body. However this is not always obvious: when at rest they curl their ears back like rams’ horns, or tuck them away completely under their wings leaving only the pointed inner lobe of the ear (the tragus) visible.

This bat's huge ears provide exceptionally sensitive hearing - it can even hear a ladybird walking on a leaf!

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20/10/2025

Say goodbye to Pecan 👋

Pecan was a juvenile vole that arrived at our rescue during the last hot spell in July. She was found in the middle of the path in the woods not moving and unable to open one eye due to a tick.

Over a couple of weeks Pecan put on some much needed weight whilst in care and was released back where she was found by her original finder.

Best of luck Pecan 💕

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13/10/2025

New Patient Arrival and release - Say hello and goodbye to Violet 👋

Violet is a female Whiskered bat that was found in Chepstow towncentre last week. She was quickly taken to Archways Vets who then provided initial care whilst contacting us for a rehab place.

During Violet's assessment upon admission it was noted that she was fairly active, no injuries but quite underweight for this time of year. She weighed just over 3g where we would normally expect her to be more around 5-6g.

Violet spent nearly a week with her carer picking up her weight to a better level before being released 🦇

Did you know that Whiskered bats are closely related to two other species ? These three bats were only identified as separate species only recently, so similar are their appearance and behaviour. Brandt’s bat was recognised as distinct from the whiskered bat in 1970, and the Alcathoe bat (described for the first time in 2001) was recognised as resident in Britain in 2010.

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11/10/2025

Patient Update 🦔

Back in July we had Pineapple, Plum and Peaches in care. This video was captured by their wonderful carer within their first week in care. All three are now back in the wild and we will share that update shortly.

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10/10/2025

Hi all, apologies I am very behind on our social media updates lately 😅 Over the next few weeks I will be adding on our updates for the last few weeks and some of our new patients too.

New Patient Arrival and release - Say hello and goodbye to Xaden 👋

Xaden is a male Lesser Horseshoe bat that was found on the road last week. He was quickly taken to Marlow Vets who then provided initial care including fluids whilst contacting us for a rehab place.

During Xaden assessment upon admission it was noted that he was fairly active but still a bit dehydrated and underweight for this time of year. Xaden spent a few days with his carer picking up his weight to a better level before being released 🦇

Horseshoe bats are a rare for us to see in care, they need a special set up compared to the rest of the UK bats. Did you know they were originally a cave dweller and unlike other bat species they can wiggle their ears to help them locate the precise position of their prey 😱

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28/07/2025

Baby Bat Update 🦇

Over the weekend our first batch of 12 bat pups has reached the flight cage and have started flying loops around the cage 💕 Only a couple more weeks until they will be soft released back into the wild 🤞

Thank you to our volunteers who went down today to help prep the flight cage floor by pulling up the unwanted grass and other plant species that have quickly taken over in the last few months 😅

Lastly a big thank you to for their continued support with the flight cage and allowing us to release the baby bat pups in such a wonderful location 💕

18/07/2025

We are a bit late in posting these event photos from Dean Farm Trust's open day and the Tintern Fete however we did have a wonderful time at both especially with the lovely sunshine on both days!

A big thank you to our volunteers Shonagh and Katie for your time and donations to our stall. Also a big thank you to Dean Farm Trust and the Tintern Fete organisers or for letting us join your brilliant events 💕

We are looking forward to the next open day at Dean Farm Trust, hopefully this time our gazebo won't blow away 😅

16/07/2025

Bat Pups 🦇

Over the last month we have admitted sixteen bat pups into the rescue, sadly one of the pups did not make it.

Taking a baby bat into care should always be alast resort, however unfortunately in these cases reuniting them with mum was either unsuccessful or the pup had been away from mum too long and were in a bad state.

Thank you to our amazing ambulance drivers who have also helped with transporting the bat pups over the last few weeks we couldn't do this without your help 🙏

Did you know that bat pups all grow at different rates depending on many factors meaning some arriving into the rescue almost full-size; whilst others are still very small. When they are small bat pups require 3 hourly feeds day and night so it is a difficult and sleep depriving job! Swipe right to see how small the littlest pups were on arrival!

It is so important to ensure that any bat carers caring for baby bats get the rest bite that they require and set a capacity limit on patients.

This is so important, we all want to say yes to every animal that is in need but by doing so we are comprising our own welfare needs which in turn will effect the high quality of care we are able to provide our patients 💗

For these adorable little guys, the next step towards release will be moving them down to our flight cage in Chepstow where they will spend approximately 3 weeks flight training 💪

12/07/2025

Thank you so much to all of our volunteers and to the public for your support in the first half of 2025 🙏

Over the next few weeks, we will be updating our social media with posts of patients and events from the last few busy months.

In the first half of this year we have admitted 49 patients into Severn Wildlife Rescue.

Out of these 49 patients we have admitted a mix of bats, rodents and hedgehogs.

These numbers do not include the numerous messages we have taken, advice given when we are able and the young that we have managed to reunite with their parents 💕

30/05/2025

I am deeply sorry that this has to be the first post that we have released in a little while.

We are currently experiencing a busy period for our volunteers. Please can I remind all finders that we only accept admissions by contacting the rescue first (By email or through our social media) as our volunteers have limited availability and capacity to help as we are only a small Wildlife rescue and can only assist with certain species at the moment.

We are currently not admitting any birds and large mammals to the rescue as we don't have the facilities or volunteers available to assist with these types of rescues.

At this time we are only available to help with small mammals such as bats, rodents, rabbits and occasionally hedgehogs and reptiles.

Thank you for taking the time to read this 💕

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Bristol, Cardiff, Chepstow And The Forest Of Dean
Caldicot

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