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With baseball season approaching, the bats are coming out.
No, not those bats.
Nebraska Wildlife Rehab is planning a bat release Wednesday night.
The organization will release approximately 200 bats received over the winter, primarily removed from people's houses.
“When there are no caves or rock outcroppings to live in, they do really well in people's attics. They roost in the wall between the roof and the attic,” said Laura Stastny, operations chair of Nebraska Wildlife Rehab.
The release originally was scheduled for tonight, but the high winds caused it to be postponed by a day, Stastny said. "Tomorrow night's forecast is perfect, so I have no doubt that it will go off tomorrow night without a hitch," she said in an e-mail. The release will begin about 7:45 p.m.
“These are all big brown bats -- that's the species -- and they're hibernators,” said Stastny.
“From about October all the way through April, we keep these bats. . . . We'll hibernate the ones that are of a good healthy weight, and the ones that are underweight we'll feed until they're up to a healthy weight, and then we'll hibernate them.”
The release can draw a small crowd.
“It's become kind of a little festival,” Stastny said.
The organization will be accepting a free-will donation of $5 at the event.
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