Today we released three birds back into the wild.
We released a blackbird and a pigeon which we had hand reared from young chicks. We also released an adult pigeon that came to us injured.
All of our birds spend time in our aviary to prepare themseves ready for release.
At the sanctuary we receive calls at all times of day and night, not easy when we also work for a living, sometimes when we return home the voice mail is full and we have to prioritise the return calls. Last night we took two calls around midnight, one was for these two beautiful Doves. A member of the public found these two birds just…
Another day and another bird of prey, we now have 7 Tawny owls with us. This chap got himself caught in netting at a school, thankfully workmen on site built a scaffold to get access to him so he could be freed and brought to us. We carefully removed the remains of the net that…
We often refer to Spring as the silly season, that’s because we get a constant precession of baby animals that need rescuing, everything from pigeons to foxes, hedgehogs to birds of prey. These two chaps are scwabs, baby wood pigeons. Unfortunately due to limited resources, we cannot cope with the shear number of calls to…
This barn owl was admitted this week after being found lifeless, he was otherwise in good condition. After a couple of days of fluid therapy, the change was quite dramatic, soon he was standing, then attacking us now he’s eating. After another few days of observation, he’ll be moved from our hospital to a large…
This guy was found on the roadside, he was cold, wet and extremely weak but fortunately, after an examination we confirmed that he was not injured. After a few hours in an incubator he had picked up, allthough still very weak. In the morning we forced fed him and have continued to do so until Thursday when…
We have now released our two swifts that can to us as chicks a few weeks ago. We have hand reared them, until the point where they were ready for release. If grounded, swifts cannot take off, so its important to get it right and watch over them. We let them take off in a…
