Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day to all! For our small part in saving the planet, we released 2 brown pelicans and an eastern screech owl (like me!) back into the wild. My buddy Owliver went to the Earth Day event at Midwest Research Institute and met my friends Valorie and Pam and lots of the employees. They put up a purple martin nesting site and planted trees for Earth Day. If you didn't do anything special today, there's always tomorrow - every day can be Earth Day!

More babies!

It just keeps getting busier and busier! Here are 2 more babies that were recently admitted.

This is one of two baby river otters drinking a special formula from a bottle. But as you can see, he has a lot of teeth and will soon be eating. His favorite food will be fish, lots and lots of fish.

This is a very young red-shouldered hawk. When babies this young come in, they usually try to put them back in their nest, or in a substitute nest, for the parents to raise. Baby raptors are a lot of work, and have a better chance of survival if they are raised by their parents. Check back with me soon, I just know there will be more interesting babies this year!

It's baby season!

It's baby season here at Florida Wildlife Hospital, and all kinds of interesting babies are being admitted. We currently have mockingbirds, grackles, opossums, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, a black vulture, a great blue heron, and my favorite, a juvenile screech owl. That baby's cage is right next to mine so I can help mentor him. Soon there will be more baby screech owls, I helped raise 17 of them last year. Here's a photo of a funny little guy, it's hard to believe that something this small will grow up to be a great blue heron.