Springtime is a very busy time for us as we receive lots of orphaned baby animals, that need to be hand reared and cared for.
In particular we rear a lot of baby birds, yesterday we received our very first of the season, a young collared dove.
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We don’t often rescue birds of prey, but when we do we are amazed by their beauty. This guy we believe has been handled and kept in a very small cage where he could not fly. Therefore he has little muscle tone and cannot currently be released into the wild.
Tags: bird of prey, Buzzard, Rescue, wild bird
Tonight we released four birds back into the wild.
First we released a wood pigeon that we reared from a baby chick, then we released two young collared doves and a feral pigeon. One dove was also hand reared by us, the other came to us with an infected eye.
Tags: bird, collared dove, release, wood pigeon
This little chap was brought in by a cat. We are hand rearing him now until he can fend for himself, he will then be released.
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Tags: baby, collared dove, Rescue
This guy has a broken wing, he will have to be suspended in a harness for a couple of weeks in a hospital cage. Then we can remove the bandage supporting his wing, he should then be fit enough to be moved to an aviary to start the rehabilitation process before final release.
Update 20 September
This guy is doing well. he is out of his sling and in an aviary being prepared for release.
Tags: broken wing, injured, pigeon
This young Sparrow Hawk came to us with an injured right wing. Fortunately for this beautiful bird the damage is repairable. The wing is now tied back to allow it to heal, the bird will be kept confined for around 4 weeks before being moved to a large aviary and prepared for release.
Update 27 September
Today we released this guy back into the wild. After his wing had recovered, we moved him into an aviary to allow his wings to strengthen, before final release.
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Tags: injured, sparrow hawk, wild bird
This poor duck has been in the wars but she is pulling through. Firstly she had human hair wrapped around her ankle, this had got so tight that it had cut through the skin and her foot had almost become detached. She was found in the city centre and as if this injury was not enough in itself she then flew into the front of a National Express bus. Fortunately the foot was not infected, so we cleaned her up, gave her antibiotics and splinted her leg hoping that the bone may fuse.
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Back in June you may have read about these little dears, they were abandoned and all on their own. Their mother went missing for several days and so we took them on.
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