While many people were enjoying the sunshine and heading to the beach, staff and volunteers at East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service were working flat out responding to calls, admitting casualties, giving advice, and hand-rearing hundreds of baby birds at our Casualty Centre.
On Bank Holiday Monday alone, WRAS dealt with a huge variety of incidents, including window-strike birds, injured gulls, fledgling magpies and crows, jackdaws fallen from chimneys or nests, cat-caught pigeons and robins, a grass snake caught in pond netting, baby swallows out of a nest, an injured fox, road casualty gulls, and even a fish caught in a floating planter.
The team also checked on a swan near Rickney after concerns from passing motorists, assisted British Divers Marine Life Rescue with the uplift and relocation of a seal from Hove Beach for its own safety,and gave advice on grass snakes, fledgling birds, nesting gulls, a barn owl nestling, disturbed nests, and swallows nesting in a stable.
On top of this, many casualties were delivered directly to the busy WRAS Casualty Centre, including nestling sparrows, jackdaws, gulls,and other baby birds needing urgent care.
WRAS also worked closely with Brighton & Hove WARS,helping coordinate rescues for injured and vulnerable wildlife across Brighton, Hove, Saltdean, Kemp Town and Brighton Marina, with several casualties then transferred into WRAS for treatment and care
In Just one day!
East Sussex WRAS helped more than 55 wildlife animals, birds or reptiles on the Bank Holiday Monday including:
8 Sparrows
8 Gulls
6 Crows
6 Swallows
5 Jackdaws
4 Baby BIrds
4 Pigeons
3 Foxes
2 Barn Owls
2 Grass Snakes
1 Blackbird
1 Fish
1 Magpie
1 Robin
1 Seal
1 Starling
1 Swan
None of this would be possible without support from the public, both practical and monetary.
Please donate what you can to this fabulous animal rescue charity. Our wildlife, surviving in their ever decreasing environment, need all the help they can get from humans, to offset the damage they suffer at our hands.
