This pup (D-Day) found himself on the wrong side of Congress Avenue Bridge on June 6th. Dianne, on her rebirth day, was called by a worried tourist and went down and belly crawled under the railing to rescue him. He probably crawled out of his crevice looking for a mum that got picked off by a predator. He was born a little early (average date of birth for free-tails is June 10th and he was likely born in late May) but lots of pups were 2-3 weeks early this year. We’ll do our best for this little guy and hopefully release him back at the bridge once he’s graduated from ABR Flight School!
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Kasey says:
So happy to see that he’s doing well! Thank you so much again for coming out to rescue him.
Signed,
The worried tourist
The Refuge says:
Hi Kasey,
Thanks for writing! I’m so sorry we didn’t see it until now–we get a lot of spam on the back end of the website and we just missed this.
You were so great to rescue this little guy–I keep seeing this picture in my head of you standing all alone in the dark on top of the bridge, protecting this baby! It’s so amazing that you even saw him at all. Thank you for caring enough to go way out of your way for him. He is still doing great–it’s a couple of weeks now since you wrote, and he’s bigger but still looks like a baby–we’ve been putting him out in the flight cage during the day in his habitat, putting him in with little red bat pups since we still haven’t gotten any other free-tail babies. Soon he’ll be attempting flight and will have a safe place to learn!
Thanks for your kindness, Kasey!
Best,
Dianne and Lee