The Wildlife Alliance - Hull & East Yorkshire

🌻 THE FOGGGGG 🌻 The fog is incredibly thick tonight!! We are currently walking the dogs and Hugo is only about 20m in front of me...... Please, please drive safe everybody!! Remember Deer will just dart out into your path and can do real damage- not only to themselves but to you and your vehicle!!! STAY SAFE!!!!

🌻 A MASSIVE THANK YOU 🌻 A huge thanks to Hull Animal Welfare Trust for having us tonight at their Christmas market! It was such a wonderful atmosphere and thanks to all the kind people, we raised £150!!! This is an amazing amount and will help tremendously in keeping things running here!! Beyond grateful to everyone who has helped make it happen!!

🌻 THE LIFE OF A SPY IS TO KNOW- NOT TO BE KNOWN 🌻 When you're cleaning out patients, but you're not alone!!! This adult woodpigeon who came in soaking wet and not flying is definitely on the mend!! He is watching my every move..... The incubators have eyes!!!!! 🤣🤣 He's not going to be happy in a minute, it's his turn next!!!

🌻 SQUEAKING IS MY MAIN JOB 🌻 When you're just a baby pigeon and all you need to know is, 'when is dinner ready?' Baby pigeons are some of the greediest little things!! Once they get used to their routine, there is no stopping the relentless squeaks while they wait, not so patiently, for their food. I've got a fair few baby pigeons in at the moment who have been blown from nests, had their nests destroyed, been got by cats etc etc. They are all fed at intervals ranging from 3 to 4 hours, using a special hand rearing formula designed for young birds. They can't eat alone just yet and so require me to act as mummy pigeon and do it for them. Once they are a bit bigger they start being weaned on to seed and fresh food with me 'teaching' them. If I've got other adults in that don't have anything contagious, sometimes the babies can learn from them by watching. Which definitely makes my life easier 🤣 There are lots of different methods of weaning pigeons, and to be honest i don't favour a particular one. In fact, quite often I'll use several different methods depending on the bird. Some do well with one method, some with another. But the goal is to get them pecking and eating alone. The birds in this video are feral pigeons, the type you see in city centres. The young wood pigeons tend to not be as eager and choose instead to hit you with their wings! Attitude or what! They are very cute when they are this age! Don't you agree?

🌻 THE HURRIER I GO, THE BEHINDER I GET 🌻 Anyone know where the title quote is from? One of my favourites 🤣 Yesterday was a busy one! These 2 rabbit kits found their way to me with the help of my friends over at Hull Wildlife Protectors who very kindly went and met the lovely lady half way and then brought them over to me. She had found them uncovered and cold, one of them had a very poorly leg. There were 3 babies but unfortunstly, the 3rd babies leg was too damaged to be able to help and so had to cross the rainbow bridge. Thank you Norwood Veterinary Group for helping him pass. Rabbits breeding season runs right through from spring until late summer and so it will be quite common in the next few weeks for more orphaned or injured kits to arrive with me. It's important to know though, that unless the babies are in immediate danger or you've observed a nest that has been alone for longer then 24 hours, to leave them be. Rabbits are very different to other mammals in that, the mother Rabbit only feeds her babies for about 5 minutes, sometimes just once a day. The rest of the time she stays away from the nest to ensure predators don't follow her back to the kits. So it's not uncommon for a nest to be alone for the majority of the time. A Rabbits milk is very very special. We as humans, can't replicate it. There is nothing we can use that is as fat and nutrient dense as a Rabbits milk. Every rehabber has their own way of doing things, but here I use a kitten milk with added cream and a pre/pro biotic powder mixed in. This isn't my first rodeo with baby Rabbits, and if you've followed me from the beginning you'll know that Rabbits are incredibly difficult to hand rear. I would ALWAYS recommend getting baby rabbits to someone who has experience instead of trying to do it at home. Thank you to everyone from the lady who found them, to the guys over at HWP for helping get these babies safe! ❤️

🌻 THE COMEBACK IS ALWAYS STRONGER THEN THE SET BACK 🌻 It's been a while.... I can only apologise for the lack of updates on here and assure you that it's for no other reason then the sheer intensity of my work load 😂 The winds brought in many casualties in the form of baby pigeons blown from their nests. I've also had a massive influx of Canker cases come through. While Canker is treatable, a lot of the time the birds get into such a bad state before they get to me and it's simply too late. I've lost a lot the last couple of weeks, which is both frustrating but also very sad. On the plus side of things, I've managed- with the help of some amazing people- to get some releases done. One of which was a beautiful Pink footed goose who had to have surgery in her mouth. She had a fishing hook lodged under her tongue and it was that embedded she had to have it cut out and stitched. She recovered very well and is now back out awaiting the arrival of her friends when they come back this year. I've had lots of fox call outs, yesterday 2 of the Alliances amazing volunteers went and helped a very frail looking fox getting him to the vets in record time. Unfortunatly, he was another victim of poisoning and was too far gone to help. Never gets any easier. As we reach the end of the season I can safely say I'm looking forward to being able to venture into the other rooms of my house and not just the hospital 😂😂 Please enjoy this video of the cutest mouse you ever did see!! And just to add, he had just been fed his milk and was going back into his house when I took this video which is why I didn't have a glove on! My hands were sanitised straight after with #safe4disinfectant and I ALWAYS use gloves when feeding! It's just such a beautiful video, I had to share it!!