We have had a long association with Liz Dorer’s ‘Swancare’, our local swan rescue and rehabilitation charity, and have helped raise funds and have provided subsidised veterinary care for her patients. Unfortunately circumstances have caused Liz to considerably reduce her involvement lately. She deserves proper recognition for the years of voluntary effort put in to look after our local swan population with very little financial help from local authorities and national welfare organisations which should have been more forthcoming.

A visitor to our ward on any day between March and August would probably find a motley collection of young wildlife – mainly fledgling birds – being tended to and reared by our wonderful nursing staff. Will our clients and members of the general public please note that, during the time of year when birds are breeding, gardens and woods are full of fledglings that have recently left the nest and that are still being fed by their parents. If such birds are brought in to us without good cause it is, in most instances, a certain death sentence, however hard our staff try to rear them. So please, if you are aware of a bunch of fledglings having left the nest in your garden then, take the cats indoors, and leave them to it. In 24 hours they will usually have dispersed upwards, out of reach.

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