{"id":40139,"date":"2025-08-02T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40139\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:21:08","slug":"wildlife-charity-near-burnham-on-sea-caring-for-one-of-its-smallest-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40139\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife charity near Burnham-On-Sea caring for one of its smallest arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secret World Wildlife Rescue near Burnham-On-Sea is currently caring for one of its smallest \u2014 and feistiest \u2014 new arrivals. <\/p>\n<p>This tiny juvenile Whiskered Bat was discovered outside the doorstep of the village school in Mark, prompting swift action from the charity\u2019s expert carers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his petite frame, staff say the young bat isn\u2019t shy about making his presence known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasted no time in showing off his big personality,\u201d says a spokesperson. \u201cHe\u2019s been very vocal during assisted feeds, keeping our bat team on their toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnham-on-sea.com\/news\/wildlife-charity-near-burnham-on-sea-cares-for-one-of-its-smallest-and-feistiest-arrivals\/attachment\/image2-159\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-220257 nofollow noopener\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"37825308\" data-slb-internal=\"220257\" data-slb-group=\"220256\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-220257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bat is currently being looked after by the charity\u2019s dedicated bat specialists, who are gently helping him adjust and encouraging him to feed independently.<\/p>\n<p>The team is confident that, with time and careful monitoring, he\u2019ll grow stronger and eventually take flight on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Once ready, the goal is to return him safely to his original roost in the wild\u2014a hopeful outcome that fits perfectly with Secret World\u2019s mission to rehabilitate and release native British wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secret World Wildlife Rescue near Burnham-On-Sea is currently caring for one of its smallest \u2014 and feistiest \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,23151,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-40139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-secret-world-wildlife-rescue","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}