Mumbai Memoir 81- ‘A day dedicated to Mind Care’!
Imagine if the Earth’s gravitational force being taken away from its surface. If that happens then what will result is chaos and dis-orientation of life on Earth. The same...
Trevor’s Week for 12th October.
This buzzard is now in care at WRAS after being found caught up in a wire fence at Crowhurst. Chris from Bexhill Wildlife Rescue attended on site to cut...
VOLUNTEER AWARDS
By Ann Evans. Follow me on Twitter: So many of our favourite tourist attractions could not survive without their enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers. Ann...
FAREWELL TO THE BEARS
By Ann Evans Follow me on Twitter: The Big Sleuth, Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity art trail featuring 100 bear sculptures has ended after 10 amazing weeks. Ann...
WENDY’S WEEK GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES AND GETTING NOWHERE
What sort of week have you had? Mine has been chaotic to say the least, and I feel I am stuck on a merry-go-round unable to get off...
Trevor’s Week for 5th October 2017.
We’ve had a lovely bat come into care this week from Bushbury Lane, Blackboys, which we think is a Whiskered Bat. They are fascinating creatures. This one managed to...
TAKE A CHANCE ON THIS
By Ann Evans. Follow me on Twitter: Photos courtesy of Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography Local hospital radio station, Anker Radio is raising money to...
Wendy’s Week Steffan’s Adventure in South Africa
For the last few weeks I have been telling you about my mother, who due to becoming blind in 1956, had such a battle to keep us...
Trevor’s Week for 21st September 2017
Well rescues have been challenging this week. A very poorly goose had to be rescued at Arlington Reservoir last week. Very hypothermic and dehydrated, the bird was rushed to...
Trevor’s Week for 14th Sept 2017
Rescue Co-ordinator Chris Riddington received a very strange call this week about an owl sat on a rabbit warren at Chalvington. The bird was spotted in the evening by...
Trevor’s Week for 7th September 2017
Fishing tackle has been a big issue this week. On Sunday we have had three gulls admitted in one day with fishing gear stuck in their feet and beaks....
Trevor’s Week for 31st August 2017.
The number of casualties we are dealing with has increased again this year with another record year of figures for WRAS. We have dealt with a minimum of 2055...
FERAL CATS – WHO CARES?
By Ann Evans Follow me on Twitter: Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography We’re a nation of animal lovers yet the problem of feral cats continually grows. Ann...
Trevor’s Week for 24th August 2017
Young Ben Sherlock and his mum Carmen joined the WRAS team last week helping with the feed and clean shift, taking a bat up to Jenny at the Bat...
Trevor’s Week for 17th August 2017
A big thank you to the South East Coast Ambulance Service who found a road casualty Tawny Owl on the C7 between Lewes and Newhaven on Monday morning. The...
Trevor’s Week for 10th August 2017
WRAS volunteers and staff had a very busy Saturday to deal, whilst Kathy and I were up early and spent 13 hours preparing and attending the Uckfield...
Injured Seal Rescued on Eastbourne Beach.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) Rescue Coordinator and British Divers Marine Life Rescue Medic Chris Riddington took a call at this morning to reports of...
Trevor’s Week for 3rd August 2017
This year has been an exceptionally busy one for WRAS. We have dealt with over 1843 casualties so far this year and our database is nowhere near up to...
Trevor’s Week for 20th July 2017
Rescuer Tony has been across to Bodiam to rescue a grounded and underweight fledgling Buzzard. We hope he will be a quite turn around and back out again. Its...
Trevor’s Week for 13th July 2017
Rescuers Fiona Palmer and Chris Riddington had a very difficult rescue on Monday evening in Claremont Road Seaford. Three floors up a gull had got caught in some...
LLANFAIR LINE’S AFRICAN TRAIN TOUR
By Ann Evans Lovers of old steam locos won’t want to miss the opportunity of getting up close to the Hunslet 2-6-2T locomotive No. 85, built in 1954...
Trevor’s Week for 6th July 2017
Every year we take on students surrounding colleges to give them experience in working in a busy wildlife hospital. We are holding a few open days for students this...
Trevor’s Week for 29th June 2017
I have not known a year like this with so many calls coming in constantly through the day and night. You answer one call and by the time you...
DOGS FOR GOOD
By Ann Evans Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography Dogs for Good, formerly knows as Dogs for the Disabled held their annual Fun Day recently at the...
Trevor’s Week for 22nd June 2017
Chris, Kathy and I rushed to Grassington Road, not far from Eastbourne Town Hall in Eastbourne after a male Roe Deer became trapped in a garden. It had jumped...
Trevor’s Week for 15th June 2017
We had two young deer to deal with this week. Duty Rescue Co-ordinator Chris and assisted Deer Rescue’s Chris and Slyvia Collinson in dealing with a young deer in...
Is Sussex becoming less compassionate towards animals?
An animal welfare charity is starting to question whether Sussex is becoming less compassionate towards wildlife after a series of cruelty incidents across the county. Since November 2016...
Trevor’s Week for 8th June 2017
The long nights and lack of sleep have continued. I’m trying my best to recover this week whilst Chris is on call. He too is experiencing numerous late night...
New Veterinary Ambulance Launched
This evening East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) launched it’s latest veterinary ambulance at Decoy Pond, Hampden Park, Eastbourne. The replacement ambulance was funded thanks to...
EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY
By Ann Evans Dogs Trust, founded in 1891 is the largest dogs welfare charity in the UK. In 2016 alone they cared for around 15,300 dogs across their 21...
Trevor’s Week for 26th May 2017
Its certainly been a week of all creatures great and small. We have had our first gull chicks of the season which is now being looked after by...
Warning over prosecution as the “Summer Shooting Seasons” starts.
Wildlife Rescuers are warning people to be on the lookout and to report to Sussex Police people shooting from bedroom windows and across gardens in residential areas as more...
Trevor’s Week for 18th May 2017
WRAS will have a display at Herstmonceux Castle Connections Weekend this Saturday and Sunday open between 11am and 4pm both days. WRAS’s educational trailer, Veterinary Ambulance and Gazebo will...
Trevor’s Week for 11th May 2017
Sleep is in short supply at the moment and I’m relieved that Chris has now taken the out of hours phone on for a couple of weeks. We’ve had...
CANINE HYDROTHERAPY
By Ann Evans Photos courtesy of Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography Swimming is possibly one of the best exercises anyone can take. So water healing – or hydrotherapy is...
Slow Recovery after Horrendous Find in an Eastbourne Bin.
VIDEO: On the Thursday evening (27/4/17) at 6:17pm East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) received a call from residents on the Kings Park Estate reporting...
WRAS appeals for witnesses after act of cruelty.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service (WRAS) are appealing for witness to contact Sussex Police after a horrendous act of deliberate cruelty in Eastbourne on Saturday. Saturday...
Trevor’s Week for 27th April 2017
Our orphan room is starting to fill up now, but we are still in need of volunteers to help feed and look after the 100’s of sick, injured and...
Malta Diary Lost&Found – Lost Innocence, Found Debauchery?
Malta’s Easter period this year could not have been more contrasting – a direct clash between traditions that go back many centuries, and, the here and now...
WENDY’S WEEK Books and computers!
Well for me Easter came and went on a floating mist without me even noticing, and although I promised to tell you more about Rye this week, I hope...