The end of a charmed run, watching tadpoles, and a greenhouse mouse

by Snow BirdUncategorizedPosted on 46 Comments

This weekend, I was asked to care for a pair of day old moorhen chicks and a very young blackbird chick. All had feeding/serious issues and were proving far too time consuming for our, currently, extremely busy wildlife unit. So began a torturous weekend. The tiny moorhens were utterly wild and ran frantically from my …

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House hunting for hogs and painting the town red

by Snow BirdGardening, Uncategorized, WildlifePosted on 45 Comments

What do you see? A pile of dried leaves? Good, that’s how I want the hog to look. Yesterday I released three huge prickly hedgehogs, they were four times the size that they were when they arrived at the rescue and totally rearing to go. Selecting their new homes is always a worry for me. …

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