They look a little bit like a mouse with wings; a little lump of dense fur with a face that only a mother could love, in the middle of an 27-centimetre wingspan. They're not the most beautiful creatures, but they're weirdly charming little monsters that could fit in the palm of your hand and weigh about as much as a pen.
We're talking about microbats - the threatened and elusive species of tiny bats that are known to live in the Hunter and have popped up in the news again recently after a roosts were discovered in the sandstone culvets that surround the Singleton bypass.
