Graham Street, who runs the Island Bat Hospital,was called to Freshwater parish hall where a bat had been found in the hall. To his great surprise, it proved to be a Part-coloured Bat, one of the rarest bats in the country. Parti-coloured bats are considered to be a migrant species. There have been fewer than ten ever recorded in this country but, remarkably, this is the second for the bat hospital; one was found in Ryde in May 2000. The Freshwater bat is seriously under-weight and is being cared for at the hospital.

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