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We rehabilitate native wildlife species, in Brora, in the Scottish Highlands. Join us on our journey!
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01/12/2025

Hedgehog number 200 of 2025 💚

No transport assistance needed as this little 365g girl admitted herself into our Hogspital by strolling down our driveway as I was about to drive up it!

To the untrained eye she's alert, mobile and uninjured BUT she's an Autumn juvenile, too small for the sub zero temperatures we're experiencing overnight, and she has some internal parasites she needs help to overcome.

She'll be here for the festivities so what shall we call her?

30/11/2025

PUDDING

Dear pigeons

Just because you CAN have babies all year round, doesn't mean you should. Please stop it - chick season is over 🙈

Thank you Shivonne and Debbie for delivering PUDDING to us from Inverness, for care 💚

29/11/2025

SUGAR & SPICE

Sparrowhawk patients normally arrive as single bird patients but on this occasion Easter Ross Vets happened to have two injured females handed in, two days apart.

We'd been asked to take SUGAR into our care for rehabilitation after she suffered a head injury, but while we got busy arranging her transport from Invergordon the request changed to include a second female, SPICE who had been handed in with almost identical injuries!

After triage and initial care at the vet's practise our job is to provide the housing, food and care needed to get them back to full health and fitness before they can go home for release.

With both responding well to treatment, they are definitely more spicy than sweet, but thats how we like our predators

Thank you to our lovely transporters Alison and Sam for providing their safe transfer to our centre 💚

28/11/2025

FROSTY

This little girl is a perfect example of "Out in the day, is NOT OK!"

At just over 300g she was on Andy's lawn in Golspie, looked bright, ate the offered food, had a wee drink from his pond and seemed alert, if a bit small. Fortunately Andy checked with friend Lynne who knew something was likely to be wrong if FROSTY had appeared in the mid afternoon.

Boxed and brought to our Hogspital things would have been tough enough for her in the wild if her size was the only consideration but as well as being exceptionally skinny and dehydrated (hard for the untrained eye to detect) she is struggling with a very heavy internal parasite burden.

Honestly, she wouldn't have stood a chance, so we are very relieved that she's here, even with her unwelcome Lungworm passengers!

She's been rehydrated, stabilised, medicated and settled.... as well as a 10 day treatment programme she needs a few weeks of feeding up before we can think about her release plan.....

26/11/2025

TINSEL

Our friends at Easter Ross Vets in Invergordon took delivery of this grounded Tawny Owl, found in the road just north of the Nigg roundabout on Monday.

We received a call just after 8am from someone who'd seen her but couldn't stop and by the time we got a friend to check for her she had disappeared. Fortunately someone else then spotted and safely uplifted her, and got her to the vets in Invergordon to be checked.

After a full assessment, treatment and overnight stay with vet Ross, she's been transferred into our care for rehabilitation and as always our aim is to get her to full strength and health for her second chance back at her fully wild life.

She'll be continually assessed between now and then but is likely to be with us for a few weeks, going to an outside aviary once she's feeding well and feeling stronger.

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone involved, especially our terrific transporter Debbie who brought TINSEL to us yesterday 💚

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 💚

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