Eagle Release

A good year for land protection in NS

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1218256.html

Rat poison often kills wildlife

Please consider wildlife before using rat poisons. Any animal ( including your pets) can be secondarily poisoned by eating a rodent containing rat poison

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=super-toxic-rat-poision-kills-owls

Wildlife Solutions

Cool story but the answer here is not to relocate the owl, but to make a less flimsy chicken pen . If one owl discovered they are easy to get at, others will , so relocating this one won't work. Plus..it will likely just come back. They aren't stupid! :) Most issues where wildlife conflicts happen, is because we have done something to attract them and need to fix that.

http://blogs.wvgazette.com/johnmccoy/2010/12/08/chicken-killing-owl-freed-by-chickens-owner/

Oiled Wildlife Training

CWRC is at Point Tupper Marine Services ( oil handling facility), teaching a seminar on oiled wildlife rehabilitation. Oil spill preparedness is a main focus of our group.

Oiled Wildlife Preparedness

I spent the past few days at the REET meeting ( Regional Environmental Emergencies Team) in Charlottetown. We have special expertise in oiled wildlife rehabilitation and I spent those the days networking with govt and community team reps. Great opportunity to spread the word about preparedness for wildlife affected by oil spills. Several training sessions coming up too. The more people I can train to help deal with wildlife if we have a spill, the better!

Benefit Concert in Two Weeks and Baby Season has Arrived

Hi Everyone,

We are just entering our busiest month and so far this is the most active year so far. Our first baby wild animal showed in April and was a baby fox ( later joined by 6 others). Since that time we have admitted many more and the phone calls get busier everyday. Will give more details later but so far in house we have the following species: Northern Saw Whet Owl, Barred Owl, American Crow, Rock Pigeon, Northern Flying Squirrel, Eastern Chipmunk, Red Fox, Mallard Duck, Long-Tailed Weasel and a Mourning Dove. Never a dull moment.

This week we also received a bald eagle that I'm pretty sure was poisoned. Luckily we had the antidote on hand and she was the quickest release ever. She was only here for 5 days and was then released back into her territory in Cumberland County.

We have our 2nd Annual Wildlife Benefit Concert and Silent Auction happening on June 19 at Kegger's Alehouse in Truro. It was a great time last year, please come and bring a friend. More info can be found at:

http://www.cwrc.net/2010_benefit.shtml

We have a summer intern from the NSAC Veterinary Technology Program ( welcome Matt) and our summer student starts tomorrow ( welcome back Kathleen). It's great to have the help as this place has gotten way too busy for me to handle on my own!

Stay tuned and I hope to keep up with this blog. Feel free to comment.

Till next time

Helene