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It's now getting much, much busier at the Hospital. Dozens of baby birds are now coming in - yesterday we took in 13 young jackdaws, not all one brood, but three different ones. I wish that this blog had sound so you could here the racket they make as soon as they think they are going to be fed!!! Our staff need ear plugs in the Brooder Room at the moment.The picture shows one of our 'nests' of jackdaws.
Birds such as these corvids (crows, rooks, jackdaws etc) are reared on Eukanuba dog food which has been soaked in water for around an hour with extra vitamins, minerals and calcium added. They do very well on this, putting on good weight and their feathers seem very healthy and strong. As soon as they are old enough we encourage them to start feeding themselves and gradually lessen the hand-feeding and human contact to prevent them becomming imprinted on people.
Other youngsters with us at the moment include baby great tits, robins, dunnocks, rooks, blackbirds and thrushes as well as fox cubs and young squirrels.
This picture shows one of our squirrels being hand fed using a milk substitute.
Many thanks to everyone who has sponsored Natalie and Helen on their Arctic Challenge so far. They still have a long way to go to reach their £6,000 target. Please support them by sponsoring them and help us to raise the funds to build our Vale Wildlife Education & Training Centre.
1 comment:
Your work is so important and it's very interesting reading about it.
I know that wildlife rescues are quite frequent in UK. I wish they were in Sweden as well, but uunfortunatly they aren't. It's strange considering that most Swedes love nature and have a special relationship with it.
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