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Our 2023 Holiday Greeting!
Dear Friends and Supporters
Season’s Greetings! It’s hard to believe we’ve made it another year! After moving all of our operations to our undeveloped new property in March, the challenges were looming. The prospect of treating the 800 or so wild babies we admit each year in a completely unprepared facility was daunting. With your support however, we quickly got a workable pool for seabird orphans, an aviary for songbirds, other outdoor housing that we made work for everyone from Mallard ducklings to Pelicans and even a Gray Squirrel!
In the end, it was a season full of joys and successes! We treated and released dozens of baby Swallows – Barn Swallows, Cliff Swallows and Violet-Green Swallows – and we treated nearly 200 orphaned Opossum babies! 13 Raccoons! Over a dozen Striped Skunk kits and over a dozen Mallard ducklings too! We brought safe and humane resolutions to dozens of human-wildlife conflicts, keeping wild families together and protecting people’s homes! We even managed to take in the deer fawns from the Redding/Shasta area when the facility there became unavailable.
Ahead, in the Winter months, we’ll rebuild more of our capacity. We have support from the Oiled Wildlife Care Network to build three large seabird pools, we’ll soon finish the raccoon housing we started this Summer – an aviary for ducks, geese and herons will be started soon… Funding issues are forever – we’ll ask for your help again and again. Our community’s support has been awesome. Without you 2023 would’ve been a disaster! Instead it was the first year in our bold new era of independence and sustainability! Thank you!
As we enter the Winter months, with a to-do list that is exciting and challenging, we’ll continue to build a wildlife care facility that is as good as our Wild Neighbors deserve. I hope that 2024 brings all of us, near and far, the peace and prosperity that will help get the hard work done. Thank you for your support across the year, and the ages.
You make it all possible! May you have a joyful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!
With deep gratitude
Monte Merrick, director HWCC/bax
First New Seabird Pool Going Up!
New Wild Review (v 4 e 1), Gratitude, Progress and some Despair.
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Our latest podcast, at last – an update on Summer, a big thank you to our supporters fro helping us out in our time of need, an avian botulism outbreak in the central valley, and a warming ocean spells disaster for us all…. stream or down load New Wild Reveiw, vol 4 episode 1!
Want to help us rebuild our facility and continue our pursuit of excellence in wildlife care?
Some links related to information in the podcast:
local coverage of leptospirosis outbreak in California Sea Lions
https://krcrtv.com/north-coast-news/eureka-local-news/leptospirosis-cases-rise-among-california-sea-lions
the wamring seas
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/marine-heat-wave-18283742.php
more sick sea lions
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/sick-sea-lions-18357033.php
Oregon Dpet of Fish and Wildlife asks public to ignore suffering Common Murre chicks
https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2023/08_Aug/081623.asp
Avian Botulism outbreak in Tulare Lake
CODE RED!!!!!
About a month ago our resources to get through the Summer began to dwindle, getting dangerously low… ordinarily the support receive each day, each week, each month, gets us through – it’s a shoestring existence, and hand to mouth, but we get it done. Somehow, we get it done – the support makes a difference and we carry on, meeting the challneges of our mission.
This year is another story. First, we are in the middle of rebuilding our facility, as everyine I’m sure is tired of hearing about. But also we are treating the same number of patients as ever – we’re at nearly 1000 admissions for 2023! And our resources are at rock bottom! We cannot go on like this. Please help.
Your support goes directly to the care of injured and orphaned wildlife, from Mendocino to Oregon, from Weaverville to the Pacific Ocean. Our responsibility is enormous and your help is the only thing that will keep us going!
If you can donate anything, now, please do so! Your online contribution will be in our account within a few days! We need your help now. Thank you!!!
Barn Swallows! Cliff Swallows! Violet-Greens!
Every patient in our care has been through a traumatic experience, and had we our druthers, we’d wish that it had never happened and we never saw them in our clinic – their wild, free lives uninterrupted by human society.
Stil, providing care for young Swallows is a transcendental joy and a supreme privilege. This summer so far we’ve admitted scores of Swallows – Barn swallows (Hirundo rustica), Cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota), and Violet-green swallows (Tachycineta thalassina). Of the swallows admitted, 24 were nestlings (still in the nest, not fully feathered) or fledglings (fully feathered but still need a parent and may have just left the nest or may have fallen out too soon).
Of those 24, two are currently in care and 20 thrived and made it back to wild freedom!
Providing care for all of our patients is a joy and a privilege. Swallows can’t help it that their elegance and grace and delightful personalities are so terrific! For me, personally, stepping into the aviary to feed them is like a restorative vacation in the middle of the incredible caseload of Summer. Most of them are out there now, meeting their intended destiny. And the reason we had the aviary, had the food, and had the facility to provide their care is because of your support. Thank you for making our work possible!
video shot and edited by Laura Corsiglia
New Raccoon Housing Coming Soon with Your Help!
We’ve started building our raccoon housing at our new site, but it’s Summer and our resources are thin! We need your help! Please donate to help us develop our new facility and keep our patients fed – we have nearly 75 orphans in care! Thank you for keeping our doors open and always striving to improve!!!!
Fawns Need Your Help!
Wild Baby Season of 2023 is nearly halfway through as we continue to build our vessel as we sail it. We need your help! Help us feed 10 Fawns, 15 Swallows, 3 Owls, 10 Mallards, 5 Skunks, 10 Raccoons, a Gray Fox and more! Please support our work if you can!
Thanks to You our Financing has been Achieved!!
With your generous support, we’ve achieved our first goal of raising the money for our downpayment and closing costs! Now we move on to permitting and then making the move! Your help is still needed of course, but we are deeply grateful and kind of blown away by the support you’ve given! Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for helping us help wildlife! and if you’d like to support our work and our move to be secure and sustainable please donate here!
video editing: Soro Cyrene
Moving Our Facility is Upon Us!
With a 3 month extension on our current lease, it’s “GO-time” for Humboldt Wildlife Care Center to secure the financing for our new location and make our move! It’s exciting, stressful, thrilling and a little scary and you can help make it all better!
Thank you for supporting us since 1979! Thank you for helping with this bold effort to make our future more secure, our work sustainable and to be here to help our region’s injured and orphaned wild neighbors without interruption! If you can, please DONATE to help us make our move!
video editor: Soro Cyrene
