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.
This beautiful swan came to us from Shipley County Park. It had a fishing hook lodged into its body. Following a trip to the vets to have the hook removed, it is now recuperating in a pen on antibiotics and painkillers.
Based as far away from the sea as we possibly can be it isn’t that often we get in gulls. However they are well known scavengers at tips and do come inland to see what human food they can scrounge. This cocky young gull came in last week and is eating all on his own….
Another swan rescue today. We get understandably frustrated by the number of calls we receive for waterfowl caught up in carelessly discarded fishing hooks and line, in most cases we cannot help as we simply don’t have the resources to help or the birds are inaccessible on or close to water. Today we managed to…
This Little Owl arrived this week, they’re a fledgling and so naturally should be living on the ground, so the advice normally is to leave well alone, but this chap was tangled up in the undergrowth so the finder intervened and brought to us. They have been untangled from vegetation, checked over for injuries and…
We have admitted another heron into our wildlife hospital this week. This chap was found grounded. Following an X-ray, it was discovered he has a fracture wing, fortunately it’s a crack in one of the bones and not a break. Bones take around 4 weeks to heal and so he’ll be with ius for at…
