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Spring Babies Go Home
 Spring
Babies Go Home
by Angela Grimes, Director of Operations
We are more than halfway through the 2007
wildlife rehabilitation season. Songbirds and fawns are gracing
our doorways in large numbers and we have seen the last of
the baby squirrels and opossums until early fall. Outdoor
enclosures are full of juvenile raccoons and skunks.
This time of year also means that we have
released many of the ones who came to us early in the season.
We have already released nearly 500 of the orphaned and injured
that have spent the past several weeks in our clinic. This
includes more than 100 opossums and nearly that number of
white-winged doves.
Our first group of raccoons and skunks were
set free just one week ago — the first of many more
to come as soon as they have grown enough to live on their
own. It has been a slow year for squirrels, but this means
that we will probably see them in abundant numbers come September.
Two great-horned owls and one injured adult porcupine are
among the others who have found their way back home thus far.
 As
the days of summer and baby season progress, the staff and
interns will continue to work day and night to care for the
800 animals at our facility helping them to grow and develop
while waiting for those still to come.
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