Author Archives: everyfeaterwildlife

Birthday in a lockdown is weird. I spent most of the day alone enjoying the outdoors and the sunshine. I missed my friends though. Missed gin with Gillian and laughing with Patrick. Yesterday was hard. Too many idiots who continue with their selfishness despite a world desperate for kindness. I was attacked for not beingContinue reading “Birthday Madness”

This lockdown is hard for everyone. Everything is so uncertain and there are so many worries and stresses. Running the rescue and dealing with keeping the birds clean and having nowhere for rubbish because the tips.are closed, finding seed and putting protocols in place to receive patients has all been ALOT. On top of thatContinue reading “Lockdown – a Diary of Madness”

There are a couple of months (possibly weeks) in the life of a bird rescue when we are simultaneously recovering from last BBS and preparing for the next one. It usually happens around November to January – depending on whether you receive a large number of baby feral pigeons. Baby Bird Season is the timeContinue reading “Baby Bird Season”

I’ve touched a little bit on this in the past – the fact that people can make running a rescue so much harder than it needs to be. With the suicide of Caroline Flack on Saturday it made me realise that sometimes social media can be our biggest enemy. It is this necessary evil –Continue reading “TROLLS”

Yesterday my friend sent me the following quote and it couldn’t have come at a better time for me: “even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is the truth” Ghandi Since working in rescue one of the hardest aspects has been knowing when to open my mouth about something and whenContinue reading “Walking The Line”

One of the hardest things to hear is one of the things that my Dad used to say to me on a regular basis. If something died – an animal on a vet programme or a bird in the road – he would look at me and save “you can’t save them all.” It madeContinue reading “You Can’t Save Them All”

A lesson I have had to learn within rescue is that doing the right thing isn’t always doing the easy thing. This has been something that you re-learn over and over again, and for the most part it has been when I have realised that I can’t keep every unreleasable bird / animal that comesContinue reading “Right Isn’t Always Easy”

When I started Every Feather and I thought about costs it was always money. How will we afford the food bills? Where do we find a reasonably priced vet? How much will it be for medications? Operations? Accommodations? It felt like an endless list of financial implications so I didn’t once consider the other costsContinue reading “The Cost of Running a Rescue”