This young sparrowhawk was found out in the open, on his own and so he was brought to us. We are quite alien to him and so initially he would not take food from us, as he would his parents. So for the first few days we have to force feed. Thankfully now he is feeding himself.We always minimise human contact to ensure wild animals remain wild, also human contact creates stress for them. We clean out and feed once a day, when he’s strong enough, he’ll be transferred into an aviary
This years Summer Open Day has been a great success, thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers and to every one who came on the day and made it such a great day and raising vital funds for the charity. We had over 1,000 visitors thorough out the day and whilst we are still counting the…
Meet Benson the lucky lamb. We were contacted by a number of concerned people who had seen a post on Facebook, by a person trying to give up a lamb. We agreed to take him on. Benson as he is now know, is doing well, despite initially being reared on pasteurised cows milk, totally unsuitable….
Meet Maisy the new addition to our cow herd who arrived this morning. Maisy is 8 and a very lucky girl, very, very few beef cows ever reach 2 let alone almost 9. Maisy met two of our boys Herbie and Billy today shortly after she arrived, we think they are all in love! Maisy,…
On Sunday we held our annual summer open day and what a great success it was. We saw over 1,000 visitors come through the gates of the sanctuary, normally closed to the public. On the day we raised £4,000 vital funds needed to keep our voluntary charity running. Although the doors officially opened at 11am, there was a steady queue forming by 10:30 and people were…
We have been to two fox rescues this week in Sandiacre and Wollaton, sadly we could not save the lives of either fox, both we believe were victims of road traffic accidents. On Sunday we took a call about a fox lying close to a busy road breathing heavily, we tried our best but sadly…
Well it chucked it down almost all day, we all got very wet but thanks a million to all of our dedicated supporters who braved the poor weather and came to our open day. We didn’t do as well as previous years, but we never expected to with the weather being so poor, but we never…
