A young tawny owl which was rescue over the weekend with a nasty fractured leg and in need of a specialist operation has been flown from Sussex to Gloucestershire by plane.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) rescued the bird but due to the specialist nature of the operation required the bird needed to go to Vale Wildlife Rescue in Gloucestershire.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) has been called out to three fox cubs within the last 12 hours.
The first was at 10:30pm (15th May 2018) in London Road Hailsham after being hit by a car. A WRAS volunteers found the cub and kept it safe till a WRAS Veterinary Ambulance arrived. The cub was very poorly and barely alive. The cub was monitored closely on the way back to WRAS’s Casualty Centre and stopped breathing, so the ambulance had to pull over and emergency first aid given to get the cub breathing again. Once at WRAS’s Casualty Care Centre vets were contacted and the cub gently warmed up as well as being medicated and give vital fluids. He was placed in WRAS Intensive Care Unit and monitored closely. Over the next hour the cub regained consciousness and stabilised so was moved to a larger cage and was encouraged to lap cat food mixed with rehydration fluid. WRAS’s Care Team are working hard to pull him through.
Rescuers were called out after a lady, on the Town Farm Estate in Hailsham, heard a flapping noise coming from a drain.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) attended on site and at first couldn’t see anything in the drain. “The lady who called us had to go out, and said the bird had been flapping around in the water, however when we arrived we couldn’t see anything. However I noticed a pipe low down close to the water, which the bird might have been able to get into” said Trevor Weeks Duty Rescue Co-ordinator for WRAS.
The 6th – 12th May 2018 is Hedgehog Awareness Week.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) is urging everyone to “Think Hedgehog” and help support this much loved British mammal which is in decline.
Most hedgehogs have come out of hibernation now and are actively seeking partners and mating. It won’t be long before the first litter of urchins (baby hedgehogs) are born.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service's rescuers were called to Meadow Place Uckfield to reports of a hedgehog stuck in a wall in a garden. Rescuers Katie Nunn Nash and Chris Riddington attended on site and were greeted with quite a challenge.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) rushed to the aid of a hedgehog reported as being stuck on the back of a crocodile in Eastbourne today.
"We are quite lucky in the UK that our wildlife is quite tame in comparison to other countries, so we were a bit worried when we were told the hedgehog was on the back of a crocodile, but relieved when we were told the crocodile was not real" explained Chris Riddington Duty Rescue Co-ordinator.
This fox cub became entangled in netting in a garden of a house in Stone Cross near Pevensey just after midnight on 14th April 2018.
Duty Rescue Co-ordinator Trevor Weeks MBE received an emergency call at about 12:40am and rushed to the scene after reports of a fox making a lot of noise after becoming entangled in netting.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) took a call on Sunday morning regarding a crashed swan walking around the car park near KFC in Lottbridge Drove Eastbourne. Members of the public were trying their best to prevent the swan from wandering into the road.
A lady in Rye Close Polegate had a shock when she found a seriously injured hedgehog in her garden attached to a rodent trap.
The starving adult hedgehog, as thought to be freshly out of hibernation, looking for a tasty meal has found a Rat trap with some taste food in it and unfortunately sprung the violent trap that became attached to one of its front legs.
Possibly our first ever successful kingfisher release. After being admitted as a likely window strike our care team were concerned about neurological signs and spoke to Caroline at Vale Wildlife Rescue for advice.
Following that advice the kingfisher was given a lovely recipe of sprats special cat food vitamins and rehydration fluid which was blended together. Our care team monitored him closely and tube fed the small bird to keep him hydrated and up to weight.
