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We rehabilitate native wildlife species, in Brora, in the Scottish Highlands. Join us on our journey!
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24/11/2025

BLIZZARD

One of yesterday's 4 arrivals this handsome lad had an unfortunate altercation with a vehicle in Morayshire that was luckily driven by a wonderful vet!

He has sustained a leg injury but received immediate professional care so we are hopeful about his recovery.

Barn Owls need full use of their legs to successfully hunt in the wild, locating food by sound and then swooping down to grab it with their sharp talons.

Pictured here after a snack, we are delighted to see him self feeding which reduces our requirement to handle him - further limiting the stress that captivity causes for our wild patients.

22/11/2025

We had a FABULOUS evening at Brora Golf Club last night fully entertained by our very own Ash Smith and his wonderful Wildebeest in the Potting Shed talk.

We were joined by so many supporters including friends, volunteers, and trustees and raised a whopping £749 for our patients.

Great talk, lovely atmosphere, and really lovely to see you all.

Thank you to everyone who turned out on such a dark, cold November evening 💚

20/11/2025

The snow is thawing, we're gathering up raffle prizes, and getting ready to set up for tomorrow evening's talk.

Do you want to join us?

Some seats still available ✔️

Pop us a message, we'd love to see you 💚

19/11/2025

First snow at HWR HQ but patients are all warm and snuggly 🦔🦅🐦💚

How is it where you are? ☃️

17/11/2025

To do, or not to do, that is sometimes the question...

When Siobhan spotted an unusual bird in her Thurso garden she wasn't sure what to do, so she took a couple of pictures and videos and gave us a ring to see if she should do something.

We don't usually expect to see many Water Rails wandering around town gardens, but our advice takes lots of factors into account including visible injuries, whether the animal is mobile, fluffed up, shaking its head, how long it has been there and whether it has space to take off, or access to adjoining areas.

We also need to consider the stress that containing a wild animal causes, as well as handling, transport, amd whether there is help closer to that location. We work collaboratively with veterinary practices across the Highland region, as well as our fabulous frontline SSPCA friends and colleagues.

Always ring for a chat about the next steps if you're unsure -.wildlife rescue centres will be happy to hear from you 💚

16/11/2025

CLINT

All the way from Melvich, super skinny and with a nasty cough, poor CLINT has had to cope with isolation and limited food being offered because you cant just give a starving animal access to an all you can eat buffet.

He's so thin that giving him medication by injection isn't an option so he's on oral meds.

Meantime, he's loving some waxworms as additional treats while his big cage is cleaned, and becoming quite a chatty lad.

Corvids are sociable birds so he will need crow company soon, but not until he's stronger and his chest is clear.

Thank you Tan for his uplift and transport, he's doing you proud 💚

15/11/2025

A boy (Iain), a rabbit (Jerry) and a rubbish photo (by me, Jane).

This week I had the good fortune to be able to help a child and a wildlife patient at the same time, and both needed some very gentle care.

For the patient, attacked by a predator that was frightened off when the wee boy's mum's car pulled up, a chance to be helped.

For the boy, already in a world of pain because of a devastating family loss, a chance to change his heart's status from grieving to hope for a little while.

The boy cradled the injured rabbit with such care and love, and then had to hand it over to a stranger, trusting that I would tend to it with the same level of concern and empathy that he felt. That's a serious leap of faith in a world that had so recently been cruel and confusing for him.

Fortunately my animal care skills far outweigh my photography ones, so I've been able to give Iain's mum good progress reports and a truthful story to share with Iain that his actions saved a precious life.

What an absolute privilege 💚

14/11/2025

WOODIE

As much as this beautiful young lady loves the idea of heading home to Marleen's garden our overnight temperatures will be too cold for the next few nights, so she's grateful that her Hogspital carers continue to take such good care of her.

Colder November temperatures herald the start of pre-release weather watch season - a forecast week of mild overnight temperatures is needed for us to consider letting the precious pricklies go.

Don't worry though, studies show that releases in mild spells with shelter and food provisions are successful, and the alternative - extended periods of captivity - can cause additional and prolonged stress that isn't conducive to wellbeing.

This is a routine consideration process for hedgehog rescues heading into winter, and with 19 of our hedgehog patients ready or nearly ready to go, we're very focussed!

13/11/2025

Homecomings 💚

With temperatures due to dip we're keen to get as many patients that are ready for release, back to the wild, ahead of Winter so as soon as Liz and I finished the essential hedgehog and bird tasks, and Tan delivered us a poorly crow from Melvich I packed up some ready-to-go patients.

I even got to hand deliver hedgehogs back to their finders and some to lovely new homes, AND grab a coffee with super transporter, my friend Lisa who then took Oswald the Tawny back to his finder in Beauly for release.

The critical work we do here is supported by so many lovely, caring, compassionate people and I got another great reminder of that today.

📸 Prickles heading into a lovely hedgehog house, made by Sandy in peparation for this homecoming 💚

12/11/2025

PORSHA

This poor lass has had a rough couple of days before her determined rescuers stepped in.

She got shut in a shed, but we've no idea how long for.

With no exit, no food, no water and no bedding material there was only a discarded black sack for comfort, so she rolled herself up in the bag, under a low shelf, and settled down with no idea what her fate would be.

When a human appeared and raised the alarm with neighbours thinking there might be a rat in the dark corner to deal with, Heather and Scott sprung to action. Well...Heather got down on her belly and shimmied into the wee gap to grab whatever was lurking under there, and Scott was ready to drive them both here.

Lo and behold a very dehydrated, very hungry hedgehog! With phonecalls made for immediate advice it was agreed that without knowing PORSHA's level of dehydration, or if the stress of the situation had left her with any injuries or parasite flare-ups, she must come in for checks. Heather's good friend Denise at Blandford Hedgehog Group even recommended that Heather preserve the p**p PORSHA produced, so that we would have a fresh sample to test - and she has a heavy Lungworm burden, so treatment has been started now that she has stabilised.

At 527g she will be with us until she's completed her treatment and gained more weight ahead of Winter, and her return to Inveran 💚

11/11/2025

BILLY

Susan and Stephen were delighted that we managed to get young Billy the Buzzard transported nearly 100 miles back to his home site today once he was fully flight tested and declared ready for release.

So fit, in fact, that poor Susan almost missed his momentous departure. Volume off if you don't want to hear her frustration 🙈🤣

Our thanks to Mairi and Sarh for their help getting him home.

Stay safe BILLY, it was a pleasure to help you 💚

09/11/2025

OSWALD

After being found grounded and weak, OSWALD has been in Flight School, to test his strength, endurance and readiness to go home.

Timing is everything - he needs to have been in care long enough to heal and rebuild sufficient stamina to be released, but not so long that establishing his own territory is too big a battle as Winter draws near.

You can still see a dark red tinge to the rims of his eyes, indicating that he's a young bird; this year's owlet, in fact, so he will have to compete with other Tawnies near where he was found before he can settle in a place of his own.

We've spent some time checking he can take off, land, manoeuvre, and avoid obstacles so that I can be confident he's ready to go. Freedom is very, very close 🦉💚

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Brora
KW96NG

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