#wildlife rescue
Dear Friends & Followers, I am auctioning this amigurumi quokka on Ebay to raise money to help with the rescue and care of wildlife affected by the Australian bushfires. If you would like to buy Hemsworth, the Quokka, and at the same time aid the animals of Australia, who so desperately need our help, please visit the following link. This is a one-of-a-kind item, designed and crocheted by me and all proceeds from it’s sale will be donated to WIRES Wildlife Rescue, Australia’s largest wildlife rescue organization. AUCTION STARTS—1/11 at 5:00 AM CST. Please share this post ❤️
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This is Basket Owl (a baby great horned owl). Its mother, who is perhaps a first time mother, selected an old, very small (for an owl) crow nest at the top of a tree. Not surprising to the people watching her constantly pulling her baby back under herself as it bulged over the edges of the nest, the baby fell out when very young. Thankfully, some kind humans noticed and instead of absconding with the baby, they grabbed a new nest (a deep basket) and secured it part way up the nest tree, then placed the baby in the basket. Thankfully, mom realized this was a much better nest and resumed sitting on her baby in their new home. This is Basket Owl yesterday, several weeks after its rescue, doing well and in the “brancher” phase (i.e. not quite fledging, but moving around in the tree a bit). It’s such a cute puff and a testament to people trying to keep the baby with its parents instead of just kidnapping it with good intentions.
Please, if you encounter baby birds this season, do your best to place them back in the nest or up in a bush or tree, off the ground. Don’t immediately take the baby and accidentally kidnap it. If the nest seems to have broken, find a cardboard box or a small basket, place the baby inside, and secure it up in the nest tree, off the ground (the parents are very likely going to find it). If you feel the bird may be legitimately injured, call a bird expert or rehabber BEFORE taking the baby away from its parents.
Enjoy watching all the cute baby birds this season!
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Volunteering is going so well! I’m two weeks in and have already held and snuggled different species, ages, and personalities lol!
Some are really good eaters and others aren’t as interested which of course makes things tough, and I suppose that’s good because it forces me to work on my patience ;). I’ve already indirectly experienced loss which stinks, two weeks ago a baby squirrel was brought in, he was only a week old maybe two, and he’d been attacked by a crow. It was super sad cause he was so little his eyes weren’t even open yet, and he had a bloody little nose from the attack :(. We fed him and got him to eat that night, but next week when I came in… he wasn’t there :(. I know it’ll happen, I’m just not looking forward to the day I open one of the squirrel baskets and find one has passed :(.
Aside from that inevitability, I really really love what I’m doing and how I’m helping! It’s a fun crew too - a few women my age and a few the generation above me. Apparently in late May there’s a slow season so they have a mid season party that involves lots of wine and sarcasm, which is something I am SERIOUSLY looking forward to! It all takes place at one of the women’s homes that had a huge deck we all hang out on and shoot the shit.
So happy I pushed myself out of my social comfort zone and did this :). It’s the first thing I’ve done for ME in a lonnnnng time.
Laura Hawkins is the executive director of the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley whose mission is to provide sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife with exceptional free care, rehabilitation, and the opportunity for release. They also educate the public about coexisting peacefully with local wildlife.
It was so cool to talk with Laura! In this chat, we talk ducks that act like dogs; what to do when you find a baby animal; why you shouldn’t trim your trees until late October; saving squirrels in India; why it’s a really stupid idea to keep a wild animal as a pet; fighting for the underdog; and so, so much more.
Anywhere you get podcasts or bit.ly/LWYLep50
TheAppalachian Wildlife Refuge is a nonprofit that coordinates wildlife rehabilitation efforts in Western North Carolina by providing care for injured and orphaned wildlife,supporting the wildlife rehabilitation network, and offering conservation education to the community!
There are multiple ways you can support these guys continue to do their amazing work:
- They have a wishlist of needed items and where they can be sent here
- Here’s how you can symbolically adopt an animal (white-tailed fawns, river otters, american toads, american beavers, eastern screech owls, eastern chipmunks, easter cottontail rabbits, eastern gray squirrels and red foxes)
- They need people to sew pouches for opossums and flying squirrels! Instructions and details are here.
Or you can just donate and share around - their website is here!
TheAppalachian Wildlife Refuge is a nonprofit that coordinates wildlife rehabilitation efforts in Western North Carolina by providing care for injured and orphaned wildlife,supporting the wildlife rehabilitation network, and offering conservation education to the community!
There are multiple ways you can support these guys continue to do their amazing work:
- They have a wishlist of needed items and where they can be sent here
- Here’s how you can symbolically adopt an animal (white-tailed fawns, river otters, american toads, american beavers, eastern screech owls, eastern chipmunks, easter cottontail rabbits, eastern gray squirrels and red foxes)
- They need people to sew pouches for opossums and flying squirrels! Instructions and details are here.
Or you can just donate and share around - their website is here!
“The owlets we recently re-nested are doing well and have settled into their new ‘nest’. Once again thank you to Canopy Cat Rescue for getting them back to their family! Thanks to Paul Dreyfuss for this great photo.”
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I literally have longed to find a baby squirrel or squirrels that I could take in and raise since I was a kid, but this little hours-old baby was better off in the hands of a professional. The kids and I took it to Judith, a retired teacher who showed us half a dozen rescued squirrels, a canary, some chrysalises that will be monarchs soon, and miscellaneous other birds at her house. She has a whole setup in her laundry room. She literally pulled a baby squirrel out of a heated drawer to show us. Look at the cute art she has framed from kids who have brought her rescue animals. Our little guy is a flying squirrel. (You can see a little skin flap there.) She said it will be touch and go, but she’ll let me know if he makes it.
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