Wildlife rescue
Free to fly again!

This beautiful buzzard arrived at the Sanctuary after it was found unconscious by local workers. After weeks of rest and recuperation, he made excellent progress and was finally ready to be released back to the wild, the happy event was witnessed by the local news. The Haven would like to thank everyone who made this possible.
This is an update for everyone involved in the rescue of the Crow that came in to sanctuary on Saturday 5th July 2003 He arrived with cat injuries to his chest and eye. as you can see he has responded very well to treatment and has regained full sight in the damaged eye. He is eating and drinking very eagerly, and has developed a fine voice much to the rabbits disgust as they live next door to his Avery, We will update you as and when he is fit for release.
On Sunday 8th June 2003 we had 3 new arrivals at the sanctuary, they were brought to us by members of the public that were out walking there dogs around the Shaftsbury lake area of Swindon, when they came across 4 male mallard ducks that were attacking the young ducklings. They managed to retrieve 3 ducklings alive unfortunately others were killed. The picture (left) was taken during their 10 day's in the vavarium.


The picture (left) now a month on shows that all 3 have pulled through successfully and doing fine, The smaller one gave us lots of reasons for concern to say the least. As it was so weak it had to be syringe fed for the first 2 days then good old mother nature took hold and their has been no stopping her. She now keeps up with her brothers at food time as well as in the water and sometimes can be very verbal to them just like all brothers and sisters.

This is pidgimoto, he arrived with a broken neck, We have had to feed her by hand for the last year because when she pecked her food it fell out, as she has no control over her neck. She can now feed herself, we inadvertently put her feed bowl under a low shelf this forced her to pull her shoulders up to fit under the shelf then when she pecked at her feed her shoulders stopped her head going back to far, enabling her to swallow the feed. She now lets us all know at feeding times that she is able to feed herself again. She will never be able to survive in the wild and has a permanent home at the sanctuary.

 
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