Last week, we received a call about an owl. The caller said the owl couldn’t fly. Allison, one of our Animal Services Officers, was able to catch the owl with a net & place it in a cage. The owl seemed grateful for the help. The owl is now with Hobbitstee WR for rehabilitation.

This was my evening: hungry fawns, flying bats and fireflies.

Our condolences to the everyone at Toronto Police K9. We are so sorry for your loss. Please take care of each other.

Whoohoo, the blandings eggs are hatching!!!

After losing our beloved dog Eddie earlier this week his also senior best friend Max couldn’t cope without him, so in Eddie’s memory we adopted a senior dog who is also a weird dachshund cross just like Max. They loved each other from the moment they met…

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A huge flock of Eastern Bluebirds hanging out in the newly created tall grass prairie. I am so excited!

Hmm, weird creature I found swimming. Turned out to be a caterpillar. I didn’t know they could swim. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation not a gar.

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Excellent talk by Renee Schott, DVM, CWR

Came home to #WesternChorusFrogs calling coming from the front lawn now restored into tall grass prairie = happy dance!

To all our amazing, funny, talented and fabulous furry-friends: have an awesome #FE2024. Unfortunately we won’t be there this year, but please support the current charity. Look for an invite to celebrate the opening of our new wildlife hospital this summer/fall!

Foxes, dogs, cats, seals, goats, cows... (and probably lions and tigers and bears, oh my?). We'd be pretty arrogant (and unwise) to think that H5N1 avian flu is going continue to be a nothingburger for humans. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…

From now till late fall cottontails are going to have babies every 28 days like clockwork. We are working very hard to care for sick, injured and truly orphaned wildlife leaving no time to care for inconvenient wildlife. For tips on peaceful coexisting: hobbitsteewildliferefuge.medium.com/there-is-a-cot…

Excited to see this wood frog egg mass!

Alberta resident sentenced to $35,000 fine and prohibition order for illegally importing and possessing protected turtles and turtle eggs - Canada.ca canada.ca/en/environment…

One week until our University of Guelph Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses symposium. Wed May 22 from 9-4 EST. Free and online. Registration is still open. events.zoom.us/ev/AiUbLEkMvjs… Program below.

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First ever HWR podcast. hobbitstee.com/podcast.php also available on Spotify. First and most boring, but a little about HWR was needed to start things off. Watch for more with great guests coming up.

buzzsprout.com/2426011/episod… next episode in our podcast series. If you are an aspiring bird nerd (or if you just like birds) this is the episode for you. Join us as we have a chat with Hugh and Julia our resident bird-nerds on the ins and outs of birding.