spent over 5 weeks in tge woods in southern Scotland at a wonderful place called Hessilhead wildlife Rescue with some of the most devoted wildlife rehabbers i've ever met- Andy and Gay Christie who took in their first wildlife casualty back in 1970! these two are a well of knowledge and i feel honored to have been able to spend time with them.
While at Hessilhead i did everything from learning to mend broken wings and legs to dressing wounds, feeding and cleaning up after every type of British wildlife you can think of...going to rescue foxes in snares and swans out of gardens then working to get them fit and setting them on their way...hang feeding concussed dear and even sometimes butchering them. i learned more rehabbing techniques then you can shake a stick at but only a tiney fraction of what there is to know. opened a huge dore into the life of wildlife rehab. and got me more excited about it then ever!
though sometimes it was hard work and long hours in cold, wet and very muddy conditions i wouldn't have had it any other way. i really came away with a lot from there.
