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WE’RE BAAAACK!! Hope you all had a lovely bank holiday last week and enjoyed having the kids off from school. We might have closed for the day to be with family but still plenty going on with the current cases!
When on a rescue if we can give advice on preventing the same thing happening again we will-unfortunately the advice isn’t always taken…back around Easter Tracey and Gill went to a duck that hatched babies in courtyard and gulls were killing the babies-measures weren’t out in place so the same thing happened again, thankfully they were able to safely catch mum and ducklings then relocated to the river!
A young magpie came in having been taken from its nest by a predator and dropped. It had an open wound on its chest that flies had gotten to and laid eggs-after a deep wound clean and some food it thankfully perked up!
In came a poorly fledgling crow-very thin, low on energy and showing white feathers-very poor diet caused protine and calcium deficiency, year + rehab from this state
Collard dove arrived in a collapsed state covered in ants with wounds from a crow attack-warmed up, wounds treated, emergency food given and it perked up able to perch!
Rare rescue for a beautiful swift that was exhausted from being grounded in a kitchen-It was a healthy weight with no injuries and a nest near by so release was the aim asap that day.
Our last lot of 3 babies were ready to go off to the big lake with the other ducks and geese-they will fly off from there when they feel ready!
Ending the week on a very odd one: a lady’s chicken hatched some eggs and somehow ended up with a pigeon egg in the mix-rightfully so this little one has been named chicken! It will be fully hand reared and hopefully the start to life won’t have confused it !
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