Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 7th March 2019
We had a handsome little toad come into care in January which had a nasty wound on its back. It was treated very carefully in our first aid room...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 28th Feb 2019
Rescuers for East Sussex WRAS and Seahaven Wildlife Rescue spent an evening at Eastbourne Railway Station after a call for help just after 7pm. Two rescuers from our hospital...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 21st February 2019
I would like to apologise for not being able to write my column every week. I have not been well and on some occasions this can get in the...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 31st January
After a New Year’s Day walk along Cuckmere Haven, two members of the WRAS team were shocked to see the build-up of plastic that has taken over the area...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 24th January 2019
January is not a month we expect to start getting baby garden birds coming into care! This has to be the earliest we have ever had such a young...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 17th January
A fox that came in 5 weeks ago went home this week. He came in after being caught in a stock fence. The poor fox was hung upside down...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 10th January 2019
Many will remember the passing of WRAS rescuer Dave Fox-Dossett in September last year. Dave brought something special to proceedings when he was on shift, as anyone that has...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 3rd Jan 2019
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year celebrations. A huge thank you to all our volunteers and staff who have been...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 27th December 2018
Our new veterinary theatre “The Dave Fox-Dossett Theatre” has been put to good use this week with its first surgical case. Rescuers attended a severely injured hedgehog in Ditchling...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 20th December 2018
A huge thank you to Peter at Perfectly Green Artificial Grass for donating a few rolls of artificial grass for our casualties. Our gulls are loving having the new...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 13th December
We are delighted that Eastbourne MP Stephen Lloyd has chosen East Sussex WRAS for his Christmas Appeal. He wants to raise enough money to buy 10 hedgehog houses and...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 29th November 2018
Well its certainly getting colder at now as we head into winter. Our wildlife will be making the most of any fruit on trees and bushes now to make...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 22nd November 2018
WRAS Rescuers Chris and Ellie were called down to Pevensey Bay last week after reports of an injured seal on the beach. Unfortunately they were unable to catch the...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 8th November
Our rescuers attended a deer after reports of it being stuck attached to wire and its antlers entangled after running off after being hit by a vehicle. Sadly the...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 1st November
Whilst I have been off ill the past few weeks the staff and volunteers have been working hard covering and dealing with numerous rescues and calls for help and...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for the 11th October
Rescuers were called out to a trapped fox in North Street Brighton last week. It had fallen into a basement area of a block of flats. Rescuers cornered the...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 4th October.
We are getting a few calls from people worried about whether hedgehogs are to small to hibernate. It is a little early to be worrying but over the next...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 27th September 2018
Trainee Rescuer Nathan attended a brown long eared bat at the Sussex National Golf Course near Uckfield at the weekend. The bat was clinging to the walk close to...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 6th September 2018.
Poor Chris is in the wars again. He has been so run down this summer with it being so busy that he has been quite ill recently. He has...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 30th August 2018
Poorly Canada Goose on the bank of the River Cuckmere There are certain calls that you receive that when you hear the scenario your heart drops and last week...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week for 16th August 2018
Rescuing baby deer from Burwash and Hadlow Down A stunning melanistic young fallow deer was delivered to our Casualty Centre from Burwash at the weekend. The poor creature was...
Trevor’s Week for 9th August 2018.
What an eventful week at WRAS! Although the number of rescues has dropped as it always does around the beginning of August the types of calls have become more...
Trevor’s Wildlife Week: 2nd August 2018
We are still getting quite a few baby or young wild animals and bird coming into care meaning our wildlife rescue centre is bursting with casualties at the moment. ...
Trevor’s Week for 26th July 2018.
I’m pleased to say Chris is recovering from his 100km race and back into the wing of things again, giving me a much needed break from the out...
Trevor’s week for 19th July
What an exhausting week. The phone has been ringing non-stop from early morning till well past midnight and into the early hours again. I so hope it quietens down...
Hedgehog Rescue
RESCUE VIDEO: A hedgehog found himself in a hole lot of bother yesterday (Monday 2nd July) after falling into a pipe close to the junction of Mill Road...
Trevor’s Week for 28th June 2018
We have on old friend come to see us this week. Summer the hedgehog is now at least 4 years old. We first met her on 16th July 2014...
Trevor’s Week for 21st June 2018
My colleague Chris is going to be undertaking one of the toughest 100 kilometre non-stop runs in the country to raise money for WRAS. The race will take place...
Trevor’s Week for 14th June 2018
As mentioned in last week column, just over a week ago a little cub was admitted from Marine Avenue, Pevesney Bay. Rescuers were called just after 11pm after she...
Trevor’s Week for 7th June 2018
Our orphan team have been hand rearing a baby hippo this week. OK, its not a hippo but actually a baby rabbit, but they do look like baby hippos!...
Trevor’s Week for 31st May 2018
So many wild animals and birds are getting into trouble at the moment. Young birds are starting to fledge and young mammals are starting to explore on their own...
Trevor’s Week for 24th May 2018
We are certainly in our busy season now. The phone is ringing constantly, our staff are getting in between 6 and 9am and frequently not leaving till after midnight....
Trevor’s Week for 17th May 2018
Its been a good week for releases. The mum and ducklings which were roaming around Uckfield Town Centre in danger of getting run over, have now been released back...
Trevor’s Week for 10th May 2018
This week is Hedgehog Awareness Week! If you haven’t been down to our Charity Shop at 192 Terminus Road, Eastbourne by TJ Hughes then its well worth a visit...
Trevor’s Week for 3rd May 2018
Bank Holiday Monday Chris and I are taking part in the Barcombe 10K to raise money for our work with Hedgehogs as its Hedgehog Awareness Weeks from 6th to...
Trevor’s Week for 26th April 2018
We took a call late morning on Sunday reporting an injured pigeon under Eastbourne Pier. Whilst WRAS were on their way the caller rang again to inform us that...
Trevor’s Week for 19th Apr 2018
Spring has definitely sprung this week. The leaves on the trees and bushes have really started to burst into life and at the same time, we are now getting...
Trevor’s Week for 12th April 2018.
So much has happened this past week I don’t know how I am going to fit it all in! We have had our first baby birds come in! The...
Trevor’s Week for 5th April 2018
Easter sees wildlife rescue organisations up and down the country starting to get busier and busier. Hundreds of thousands of casualties will occur this Spring and Summer and be...
Trevor’s Week for 29th March 2018
You can tell Easter is almost here as WRAS welcomes in its first orphan badger and fox cubs. Last week we were called to a badger cub found in...