Fruit bats

After a walk through the Tableland Regional Art Gallery in the town of Atherton, we headed off to find the Bat Hospital; we had booked a tour for the afternoon. At the moment the Bat Hospital is reasonably quiet, staffed by one volunteer and two employees. The bats that have arrived have either been caught in netting put up by farmers to protect their fruit, or injured by barbed wire, or are sick because of ticks.

The Flying foxes like being in the sun

All the fruit will be gone by morning