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 sparrow hawk flew into a mirror causing concussion and a broken toe, they have overcome the concussion and the toe healed. After a week in our hospital they were moved to an aviary and now released.
When the weather is nice and people are out and about especially over weekends, that’s when we receive lots of calls, this weekend has been one of those and we have had to prioritise what we can help with. Along with another fox cub, several birds and more babies to rear, we took in this…
Just as we successfully released one swan, we rescue and admit another. This juvenile landed and got caught up in brambles and was still in the same location a few days later. After collection we carried out our initial examination and continue to assess. Theres no evidence of injury and we are confident it will…
We have another swan in our care. This chap was found on a back lawn, it appears he crash landed hitting the house on his way. He’s been checked over and apart from a few minor injuries, the main concern is an eye injury which we are treating him for.
These two doves were released together in early July. One came to us as a chick which was hand reared, the other had a broken leg, which was repaired prior to release.
This is a lucky Collard dove, we found him at the sanctuary, grounded and immobilised due to a broken left leg, broken in two places. We swiftly splinted the leg and put him in a cage for rest and rehabilitation. He certainly chose the right place to get a broken leg!
