Hard releasing bats: these are the dancing 5

Polka, Waltz, Minuet, Lambada and the Last Tango are 5 female batties who had been caught in fruit netting, who had served their time and healed, and were ready for hard release. I was asked to go and collect them from Susan’s aviary and let them go back into the colony. Catching them is, as usual, a matter of untangling all their pointy bits from the mesh in the cage and preventing them from re-grabbing the mesh while you’re untangling the other pointy bits. I got sniffed by a very late baby who was almost ready to be sent north for creching (her name is Lupin) and peed on by a batty who wasn’t happy that I was disturbing the peace. The release site is about half an hour across town, where I met Maggie for the release. Because we had so many bats in the 2 carriers, I elected to fly them off our arms so we didn’t have the scrum of all the bats flying off at the same time and me having to chase any batty who was unable to fly well enough for release before they got into a