Wildlife Rescue
When I'm not looking after my own animals, I run a small wildlife hospital dealing with between 20 and 30 casualties each year. Most are birds (fledglings, oiled birds, cat victims) but I also take in hedgehogs, wild rabbits and bats.
Of the more unusual birds needing treatment have been a Cuckoo (caught by cat), a Manx Shearwater (grounded after flying onto road) and a Grey Heron (broken wing from flying into telegraph wires).
Four years ago I raised a 3 day old seagull after it was blown from it's roof-top nest in high winds. This gull now lives wild but returns to me every now and then for some cat food chunks and last year it nested on my house roof and produced one baby which itself was blown off in a storm and also had to be hand fed and reared until it could fly.
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