A few years ago we took in eleven fawns in a short time period during spring. We lost eight, partly I strongly suspect, because they were chased. While I never know exactly what happened to wildlife I take in prior to my getting them, I can make pretty good guesses, especially with fawns. You see, […]
Baby bunnies are not like the Easter bunny. They are the highest stress wildlife and can literally die in your hands if you pick them up. They look so cute and vulnerable that handling them and protecting them comes naturally to many of us. What we ought to do is just the opposite. They don’t […]
I can tell that baby season has started because the number of calls I am receiving is averaging over thirty per day, and many are about babies. I picked up two baby squirrels a couple days ago whose mother was killed by a tree that was being taken down crushing her. The babies were found […]
Among all the dangers to birds in the spring, one of the worst is fertilizer on lawns. Since most of our birds are ground feeders, they ingest the fertilizer directly or through insects and seeds that have gotten the fertilizer on them. Birds may also have contact with lawn fertilizer by touching it, drinking water […]