Cozy in the bat cave.

Jingles has finally settled in like a bat should! Hanging from the roof! Whenever I put him back in after his "torture sessions"....(oh the drama!LOL).....he waits for me to leave then finds his own spot to settle into. This is the first time he chose to hang like the bat he is and I'm so proud of my little guy!!

Jingles, Dandy & all the raccoons....

Jingles is doing great....and pissed off as usual when I check him out and give him some fluids!

The uptown gang are all great and cute as ever....

The 2 boys wrestle with my hand...Charger and Outlaw

All 3 of the younger kids....Button far left, and the 2 boys.

Cute as a Button!

The older boys get their favorite.....no problem getting them to come out for chicken wings!

....well...some of them come out for them, and some just settle for breakfast in bed. LOL

My girl Dandy gives us our best look yet at how well she has done since her surgery. She still has that permanent smile....but oh how beautiful it is to see!

So far no signs of any neurologic coons at the feeding station, and Daisy...one of the residents of the den site, is one of the regular visitors showing up at the feeding station and looking great.

Right now I'm just keeping my eye on things and hoping for the best. I'll try alternating the coon cam between the den site and the feeding station to get a look at as many as I can, checking for neurologic signs......

It's a boy....for sure!

We had to get Jingles out again for some more sub q fluids and to check his body condition and make sure he was not too thin or we would have to wake and warm him so he could eat and fatten up a little.

He started out pretty calm and sleepy, but by the end of it he was REALLY pissed off! Even worse than the first time we did it! Who could blame him! We weren't just giving him fluids.....

....we were taking naked pictures of him to paste all over the Internet for everyone to see!! LOL! While getting a look at his belly area to make sure he wasn't too thin, we also got proof positive that he was, in fact, a he!

And now that he feels violated and pissed, he kicked and screamed his way back into his cage and is now peacefully sleeping in the crevice of his blankets!

Checking in on Jingles.

Jingles has been tucked away sleeping for a week since Laurie and I gave him some sub q fluids last week. It was time to take him out and get a look at him......

....and try giving him some more fluids.

A couple nice poses to send to Bat World for evaluation.....

.....and back to bed he went. He only drank a little water. Once he figured out every time he opened his mouth I would drop some in there, he just stopped opening it! Smart little guy!!

I think he's getting used to me. Not as stressed by my presence, but just doesn't like being handled. So once again, he's really going to be pissed off if we have to give him some more sub q fluids! Ha ha!

Pissing off Jingles!

Well Laurie and I got Jingles out to give him some sub q fluids and treat the wing tear a little. Needless to say he was NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT AT ALL! Laurie managed to get 2cc's of fluids into him and we got some triple antibiotic ointment on the 2 wing tears. Took the pics to send to Bat World so they can evaluate it and see if we need to do any more.

Now he is comfortably back in his cage....with the damn glove he was clinging to here! Wasn't going to let go....like a small, fluffy, Velcro vampire he was! LOL! So I just slipped the glove off with him stuck to it and hung it back in the cage. Good thing I have more gloves!

Jingles, Mojo & during the thaw!

Jingles is resting comfortably as you can see! We've reached a little speed bump though. After getting some advice from Bat World in Maine, I roused him to to get him to take some more fluids and possibly sub q him. Well he got pissed off enough to totally spread his wings and give me a good look and I noticed a couple small tears in one of the wing membranes.

So I will be getting back in touch with Jen and hopefully figure out what is best to do with our little friend!

In the meantime, Mojo and Miracle are doing great. Mojo has finally gotten used to me...so much so he is constantly begging at the door for nuts when he sees me now!

And of course, how could I resist him!

The unusually warm 60+ degree weather has everyone venturing out! With most of the snow melted the gang has been hitting the feeding station again.

Here's Daisy looking great as usual!

The platforms were crowded! You would think they were starving out there! They certainly don't look like they've lost much...they are still porky!!

Mom and her late kits are doing fine also. My only concern for them was having been late babies, I hoped they would have enough fat and volume on their frames to hold them over for a long term sleep. But mother nature gave them a break and some great spring like weather in between storms to allow them to hit the feeders and replenish for the round of snow hitting us now!

Santa's helper & Jingles the bat.

After almost 2 feet of snow, the temps. have risen and it's all melting!! One brave soul ventured out on Christmas Eve. Not for long, perhaps just making sure all was in order for Santa's visit?? I am guessing now that the snow has melted down to a more manageable couple inches of hard pack, more will be venturing out soon. Forecast says we may hit the 60's this weekend! I have a feeling everyone will be out because they will think it's spring!!

Our little friend Jingles is hanging in there! LOL...sorry, had to say it! This seems to be his spot of choice. Settled in this spot a couple days after getting here and hasn't moved since -except to open his mouth for his daily drop of water, then right back to sleep like all good bats should be!

Fun with tires & a new overwinter!

Well here's a new one on me! This little guy (or girl?? not sure at this point!) was found in some one's house and needed a place to spend the winter. A cool place. So with a joint effort by many, we have him safe and sound. Fran had the knowledge, Mary got a cozy "house" ready for him, Laurie got him and brought him over, and I have the cold but not freezing environment for him...... So in my garage he resides! I'll be doing a lot of reading up on bats now, and hopefully all will go well and we can reunite him with his colony in the spring!

After learning a few new tricks at the NY conference, Laurie mastered the art of tire tunnels! She's got a great one hanging in her pen and she came over and gave me a lesson as we put one together for the downtown pen.

I hope to eventually have it hanging from the top of the cage...but we're going to need a couple more strong shoulders to help lift it up there so I can secure it! So for now it is suspended just off the ground....but still able to be enjoyed by the coonies. That is IF they ever come out of their den boxes again! We got snow shortly after this and the 6 older boys were NOT thrilled.

Mo, Toto and Quinny wouldn't even leave the den box, and the twins and Rollo finally forced themselves to rush through the snow onto the feeding platform....because they are the biggest pigs after all! haha Stinky was shivering the whole time though and obviously not happy about it!

I have a feeling those den boxes are going to be a mess come spring time! Ugghhh!