Ledbury Animal Rescue Service

Ledbury Animal Rescue Service Small independent rescue specialising in pigeons & doves. We can advise on other species also.

New little cutie in. A little wood pigeon but with some unusual colouring! This little guy has been confirmed to be leuc...
26/07/2024

New little cutie in.
A little wood pigeon but with some unusual colouring!

This little guy has been confirmed to be leucistic. Which means he has Leucism.

Leucism is a rare pigment deficiency where the pigment that makes the feathers dark is partially or fully absent.

Birds can appear to have lighter feathers, patchy spots, singular white patches or sometimes even be fully white!

Hes going to be an interesting colour when he gets older 😍

Baby swift found on our local high street by another local shop keeper. Poor thing was outside on the floor all night an...
13/07/2024

Baby swift found on our local high street by another local shop keeper. Poor thing was outside on the floor all night and morning until it was picked up.
Very lucky to still be alive.

A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I could help with a large loft of racing pigeons after the owner sadly passed away....
19/06/2024

A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I could help with a large loft of racing pigeons after the owner sadly passed away.
I was due to go on holiday the next day but I couldn’t leave them after hearing they had been stuck in that loft for some years.
So I grabbed lots of boxes with the help of other local businesses, grabbed the van and made my way to malvern to get these poor guys.

It was so sad to see that these poor pigeons had been living in dirty conditions for some years, caked in poo, and even dead carcasses in with those alive 😞 it really made me so sad and also angry.

Luckily although the conditions were poor, most of them seemed in good enough health with only a few not looking too good.

So I boxed up 97 pigeons with the help of a lovely neighbour and drove all the way to burton on Trent to linjoy sanctuary (with the help of my dad) to get them to safety.

They’ll now have the opportunity to live in open air avairies and eventually be able to free fly after all that time being stuck indoors.

Update - 2 little hoglets didn’t make it 😞 The remaining four are apparently doing well. —————————————————————6 little h...
19/06/2024

Update - 2 little hoglets didn’t make it 😞
The remaining four are apparently doing well.
—————————————————————6 little hoglets safely taken to vale wildlife hospital.
Not in great condition but we are hopeful.
Sadly the mum was hit by a strimmer and suffered injuries that became infected and caused her sad demise.
She must have suffered for almost a week trying to keep going for her babies 😞 until she finally gave up her fight.

Luckily the residents at st Michael’s realised there were babies when they noticed a couple of them wondering around aimlessly (obviously looking for mum).

The hogs were cold, full of fly strike and looked dehydrated. Fingers crossed for their recovery.

PLEASE LEARN TO CHECK AREAS AND UNDERGROWTH FOR NESTS BEFORE YOU STRIM AIMLESSLY!
or better still if it’s for aesthetic purposes… leave well alone!!!

Meet Elizebeth, travelled all the way from London to me and her new home as sadly no owners could be traced to get her b...
19/06/2024

Meet Elizebeth, travelled all the way from London to me and her new home as sadly no owners could be traced to get her back home 😞

She’s a type of fancy pigeon, most likely called an old Dutch capuchine pigeon.
Amazing how many breeds of pigeon there are!

What a week this is turning into! Current hospital shed patients - 1 feral with spinal injury due to being shot. 1 adult...
30/06/2023

What a week this is turning into!

Current hospital shed patients -

1 feral with spinal injury due to being shot.
1 adult wood pigeon possible cat attack.
1 baby feral with a broken wing and suffering starvation.
1 tiny duckling with a nasty broken leg
1 racing pigeon with a horrific leg break.

Newbies in the avairy this week -
1 racing pigeon that was emaciated but improving each day.
1 little female feral that had a wing injury but is now flying the avairy beautifully.

Releases this week -
1 adult wood pigeon that had suffered a broken wing.

Losses this week -
1 fledgling sparrow that had suffered spinal damage from head and neck trauma.
1 adult wood pigeon with severe open fractured wing.

Taken to vale wildlife rescue this week -
2 baby wood pigeons both from separate nests, both nests destroyed.
2 little owls, sadly injured due to dogs.
1 poorly jackdaw hit by a car, super thin and suffering spinal damage.

Not to mention the many many! Texts, phone calls, fb messages with people asking for advise and the 30+ resident birds I need to care for daily.

Sadly I am just not in a position to be taking more in at the moment or making daily trips to vale wildlife hospital on people’s behalf.
So please, if you’ve got the transport to go then please find the time to take to vale or your nearest larger charity registered rescue.
It would be greatly appreciated by myself and the casualty you may have.

Finally -
I’d appreciate if the public could please try and avoid calling my shop phone or telling people to call my shop phone about animals in need.

I’m happy for people to get in touch …
But it’s gotten to a point where every other phone call at my shop is about an injured animal.
It’s not fair on myself or my staff and it’s starting to affect the running of my business.
After all it’s a ladies clothing shop not an animal hospital 😅 and I’d like to try and keep it that way.
If you’d like to get in touch Please call my mobile or send me a message on fb instead.

I hate to sound like I’m ranting…

So here’s some cute photos of some of this weeks guys and gals

This poor little lady came in yesterday. Found on a lovely ladies front door step in ledbury. She’s suffered significant...
16/04/2023

This poor little lady came in yesterday. Found on a lovely ladies front door step in ledbury.

She’s suffered significant wounds to the face and eyes by what looks like blunt force trauma.
Both eyes and her head are swelling further and turning more black by the hour.

We believe the one eye is gone and there’s no chance of her regaining sight but the other eye (although severely bruised and weeping) may still have some hope and a chance.

She’s been to see Derek at the wonderful ledbury park vets, she’s had pain relief and antibiotic injections, along with being sent home with Anti-Inflammatories/ pain relief.

We won’t know the extent of the damage until the swelling is down which could take a while!

We can’t be 100% sure, but its possible these wounds have been inflicted on purpose.
Although we have no proof of this, there have been reports once again that birds are being found with impact injuries consistent with being shot or hit with blunt objects such as stones from sling shots.

It is a prosecutable offence under the wildlife and countryside act 1981 to cause unnecessary suffering to ANY wild animal.

If anyone sees any individuals causing harm to any wildlife in the area please let us know and also report it to the police as soon as possible. If you can grab a photo / video even better.

We will do our best to save this little one but her life will never be the same 😞

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