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WildCare’s Living with Wildlife Hotline 415-456-7283 has been flooded with calls about “abandoned” hummingbird nests this week! People ask: “What could be causing so many mother birds to orphan their babies?” and “What can we do?”
Don’t panic, those baby hummingbirds are most likely not orphaned, but their presence does mean it’s no longer safe to trim or prune trees, shrubs and bushes!
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Late Saturday night, October 23, a major storm system moved into Northern California, bringing with it heavy winds and an absolutely astonishing amount of rain.In what the National Weather Service…
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Meet our baby chipmunk patients! This video streamed live yesterday on WildCare’s Facebook page (facebook.com/wildcarebayarea). Enjoy meeting these wonderful babies up close and learn how we care for them at…
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Play Video Watch as volunteer arborist James Reed places our young Great Horned Owl in her new nest. Video by James Reed Reunited and it feels so good! WildCare and…
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Watch Our Now-healthy Bobcat Return to the Wild Enjoy Sarah’s photos in the gallery above, and, in case you missed it, read the story of this Bobcat’s intake into the…
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Meet our first baby squirrel of 2021! This young Eastern Fox Squirrel is less than four weeks old. Baby Season Has Begun! If you’ll recall, last autumn our Wildlife Hospital…
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Love is in the air, and it smells like… skunk? A recent caller to WildCare’s Living with Wildlife Hotline was convinced that the skunk she had seen in her yard…
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Employer Matching Gifts Double your gift with an Employer Match Many companies offer matching gift programs to encourage employees to contribute to the organizations they care about. Some companies also…
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Living with deer is now a fact of our lives in the Bay Area. We eliminated their major predators, mountain lions, and now urban sprawl has crowded them into less and less space.
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When WildCare Medical Staff wraps a songbird’s injured wing, they don’t generally expect to come back the next day and find the wrap scissored to pieces. But that’s what happened…
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