So Many Babies!

A 5 gram baby Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) whose nest fell. We tried to get the nest back up, but the parents had already left the site. Now the baby will be with us until old enough for release.

We are deep in the middle of Wild Baby Season! In the few months from the end of May to the end of August we admit half of the patients we’ll treat all year and 95% of these patients are orphaned babies. Yes, it’s a lot of mouths to feed. Yes, without your help, we’d be unable to meet the challenge. Yes, being able to help so many innocent your animals get a second chance at wild freedom is a joy and a privilege beyond measure.

Mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos) we admitted when they were 30 gram yellow puffballs, now 700 grams and ready for duckweed in the Wild!
In the Wild!

The madness has been underway since early April, but now we’re really cooking. The busiest weeks are just ahead. We really do need your help. Please donate if you can. Our facility, our staff, our utility providers, and most of all, our patients, are depending on you!!!

Enjoy these photos of our recent patients!

Tree squirrels, in this case a Western Gray (Sciurus griseus), are semi-flighted!
At release, the ground wasn’t on this Western Gray Squirrel’s list of things to do.
Canada goslings (Branta canadensis) old enough to be on their own make their way out of the transport crates/
These orphaned goslings have each other, which is more than many wild orphans have. Helping wild babies reach maturity is easier if they have some buddies, or conspecifics, as we call them professionally.

Your support is critical always, but especially now. The next 10 weeks we will need to feed hundreds of wild babies, buy a lot of medicine, a lot of electricity, a lot of water, a lot telephone and a lot of staff hours. Your donation goes directly to the care we provide. Please help! Thank you so much!!!

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