Wild Care received a panicked call from a chef at a Wellfleet Restaurant.
A hummingbird was inside their outer porch eating area. They were opening for dinner in 5 minutes. The bird was unable to find its way out and the restaurant crew was too busy at the moment to continue trying to help it…
For a couple of months, rescues have been very quiet so I’ve added some informational pieces to Duck Tales. This month, however, as is often the case in the summer, things livened up at Wild Care. Not only are the bird and squirrel babies in full swing…
Our Office Admin Kerry, rushed to Wild Care last week with a bird that had just struck a window at her house. It was a female Northern Flicker. She knew there were babies up in a hollow part of a tree in her yard…
It’s been another quiet month for this volunteer, at least in terms of crazy stories. I did pilot a new talk based on my previously written about stories, fed baby birds, and did quite a bit of communications, but none of these activities make a fun story…
Some months as a volunteer are more exciting than others. Alas this month I couldn’t take the only two calls I got for field rescues, and while I’ve done quite a lot of other things for Wild Care, none are really story-worthy. So I thought I’d shift a bit this month and write about Eastern Box Turtles, a subject I do talks on from time to time…
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It’s March 28, and I’m arriving home from a bunch of errands, when I spot the answering machine light blinking. It’s Wild Care, asking if I can get a loon in a driveway in North Truro…
As most of you know, I’m a volunteer at Wild Care, as a speaker for educational programs, manager of Facebook’s Messenger communications, feeder of orphaned birds and squirrels, and trained field rescuer of injured and orphaned wildlife when called upon. What most of you don’t know is that I’m also often a pain in the neck to the staff.
The day before the day before Christmas Eve, Wild Care received a call from a woman who had found a Screech Owl on the road by her house. Her name was
MaryLynn and she was very grateful to have a place to bring the owl.
Wild Care received trees used in a holiday fundraiser by the Visiting Nurse Association!
By Jennifer Taylor Animal Care Coordinator • Internship Coordinator Five Dovekies in a pool photo by Jennifer Taylor Every year from the beginning of November through January Wild Care is at the ready for Dovekies. We know they will come after Northeast winds and they will come in large numbers! The Nor’easters blow these little birds Continue Reading
Adventures of a Volunteer • By Amy Sanders In this holiday season, a time where counting one’s blessings seems particularly important, I was asked to reflect a bit on why I do this volunteering stuff for animals—as in, what does it mean to me, or perhaps a “What’s in it for me” if you will. Continue Reading
Animal Care Coordinator Jennifer Taylor Featured Photo • Kerry Reid In mid August we received a call from Provincetown about a duck in need of care. It was found stranded on the beach off of Commercial Street by a very concerned family. They had already correctly identified it as a Surf Scoter when they called Continue Reading
Adventures of a Volunteer • By Amy Sanders
One hot August day I shifted from feeding baby birds (who had grown big enough to be in the aviaries, and no longer hand fed), to feeding baby squirrels (2020 batch 2)…
August of 2020 was HOT—the hottest in 120 years of record keeping according to WBUR. I spent much of it in my studio. As you might remember from last month, I’ve been nursing a sore ankle bone (no clue as to why as is often the case as we age). Suffice it to say I’m not in the best shape I’ve ever been in when I get a call from Wild Care. There is a report of a badly injured gull on Ballston Beach (Ballston again too!). Could I possibly go?
Adventures of a Volunteer, By Amy Sanders July 30, 2020, I was sitting in my studio painting. Caring for my extremely old dog has occupied much of my time of late, and I had bowed out of field rescue for a bit when she became fearful of me leaving her side. Fearful in the extreme Continue Reading
By Jennifer Taylor, Animal Care Coordinator A couple of weeks ago Wild Care received a call about a snake they had unintentionally caught in a Hav A Heart trap. It was stuck between the bars and could not get out. To get an idea of the trap’s size we asked what they were hoping to catch. Continue Reading
By Jennifer Taylor, Animal Care Coordinator An unexpected adventure of trust started when a couple of friends visited a park in Arlington. They watched Eastern Kingbirds contentedly feeding their fledgling babies when suddenly other birds (we suspect Blue Jays) began making a big raucous around them. A young Kingbird was now alone on the ground Continue Reading
Stephanie Ellis, Executive Director Wild Care, Inc. 10 Smith Ln. Eastham, MA [email protected] • Website Download A Printable Document Bay Area Bird-Related Supplies and Nest Boxes: Los Gatos Birdwatcher (store), Los Gatos Bird-related supplies, including bird food, feeders, nesting and roosting boxes http://losgatosbirdwatcher.com *** Wildlife Rehabilitation Near You! Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley, San Jose: Continue Reading
Adventures of a Wild Care Volunteer, by Amy Sanders All of my tales, since I began writing for Wild Care, have been about animal contacts. It is true that I do regular shifts feeding baby birds, shifts feeding baby squirrels, field rescues for the Outer Cape, and have even embarked on doing talks with the Continue Reading
Adventures of a Volunteer By Amy Sanders Many calls that one receives as a volunteer field rescuer are easy. Well, not necessarily physically easy to carry out, but easy in that I know what to do. Once in a while though, a call comes through that is scary for me because I haven’t had the Continue Reading
By Jennifer Taylor. Animal Care Coordinator On March 20th, Wild Care staff called an unplanned meeting to address how we were to cope with the COVID-19 situation in anticipation of an Emergency Order from Governor Baker. We had a whirlwind of questions to face… Do we close? How do we take care of the current animals? Continue Reading
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Wild Care has a state-of-the-art seabird therapy pool, which allows seabirds and waterfowl to exercise on running water. This will help our bird friends recover more quickly so they can get back to their watery habitats!
