So, all back to normal this week. Only two shifts, and no orphans at home. I am on the rota for feeding next week. The hospital is very quiet.
I started yesterday feeding some fledglings in Hospital 2. There were half a dozen dunnocks and one tiny wren. The dunnocks were bullying the wren, and not letting him eat, so they got bannished outside into one of the aviaries. There were a couple of dozen ducklings in there. The smell was unbelievable!
In the orphan room I had three baby squirrels to feed. They are at the climbing on everything stage. It's not easy getting the syringe into thier mouths when they are hanging upside down on the back of your shirt!
The two hoglets are still there, but they are now weaned on to more solid food. They have both gone up from around 80gr to about 200gr.


As you can see they really enjoy their breakfast. I had just finished cleaning them.
I took a call from a gentleman who was calling from a barge. He asked me to call him back as his phone was running out. When I did, she said `That's amazing! I've had a very sick looking coote on my boat all night, but just as you rang, he got up, jumped in the water and swam away! Now that is good service, healing over the phone!!`
There was a very sad case in ICU,a tiny pigeon squab that had been born without any eyes. Unfortunately there was nothing that could be done, and would not have survived on his own, so the vet put him to sleep.
A huge badger came in, but he also had to be put to sleep as he had been attacked by a dog, and was too badly injured. His wounds were already infected.
On the more cheerful side, we have another tiny hoglet, a couple more baby squirrels and loads more pigeons.
Simon got a call at the weekend from someone who said they had an otter in thier garden, but we never heard any more about it. The volunteers would have been fighting to look after that, we've never had one.
The rest of the shift was spent mostly cleaning and feeding. Another baby squirrel came back from home feeding, ao that needed feeding again.
As we were leaving, a lady came in waith a zebra finch. As it isn't British wildlife we shouldn't take it in. However the lady said her vet wouldn't treat it, so Cathy agree to take it. The lady said she will pay for it's care.

It only had one foot, but I don't think she expected us to fix that!
And that was about it. Finished nice and early, and ready for the afternoon shift.
Sue
I started yesterday feeding some fledglings in Hospital 2. There were half a dozen dunnocks and one tiny wren. The dunnocks were bullying the wren, and not letting him eat, so they got bannished outside into one of the aviaries. There were a couple of dozen ducklings in there. The smell was unbelievable!
In the orphan room I had three baby squirrels to feed. They are at the climbing on everything stage. It's not easy getting the syringe into thier mouths when they are hanging upside down on the back of your shirt!
The two hoglets are still there, but they are now weaned on to more solid food. They have both gone up from around 80gr to about 200gr.


As you can see they really enjoy their breakfast. I had just finished cleaning them.
I took a call from a gentleman who was calling from a barge. He asked me to call him back as his phone was running out. When I did, she said `That's amazing! I've had a very sick looking coote on my boat all night, but just as you rang, he got up, jumped in the water and swam away! Now that is good service, healing over the phone!!`
There was a very sad case in ICU,a tiny pigeon squab that had been born without any eyes. Unfortunately there was nothing that could be done, and would not have survived on his own, so the vet put him to sleep.
A huge badger came in, but he also had to be put to sleep as he had been attacked by a dog, and was too badly injured. His wounds were already infected.
On the more cheerful side, we have another tiny hoglet, a couple more baby squirrels and loads more pigeons.
Simon got a call at the weekend from someone who said they had an otter in thier garden, but we never heard any more about it. The volunteers would have been fighting to look after that, we've never had one.
The rest of the shift was spent mostly cleaning and feeding. Another baby squirrel came back from home feeding, ao that needed feeding again.
As we were leaving, a lady came in waith a zebra finch. As it isn't British wildlife we shouldn't take it in. However the lady said her vet wouldn't treat it, so Cathy agree to take it. The lady said she will pay for it's care.

It only had one foot, but I don't think she expected us to fix that!
And that was about it. Finished nice and early, and ready for the afternoon shift.
Sue


