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...
Trevor’s Week for 22nd March 2018
The cold spells over the past month have certainly saved us on food bills for the hedgehogs, with most of the one we are over wintering have all hibernated. ...
Trevor’s Week for 15th March 2018
We were called out to rescue a buzzard after it struck a train between Buxted and Uckfield Railway Stations last week. Whilst walking along carrying out a line inspection...
Trevor’s Week for 1st March 2018
Compared to last week that was quite hectic this week has been much quieter, which is no bad thing with the currently wintery weather. Due to the Met Office’s...
Trevor’s Week for 22nd Feb 2018
This has certainly been our busiest week so far this year. We’ve had four badgers rescued in the past week. The first was asleep in an alleyway at the...
Trevor’s Week for 15th Feb 2018
Rescuers Kathy, Chris and I were called out last week just after 9am to a Fallow Buck with an antler entangled in rope. The blue rope has been used...
Trevor’s Week for the 8th Feb.
At the moment the majority of calls we are receiving are about road casualties. Kathy and I rushed out to a Tawny Owl hit on the road not far...
Trevor’s Week for 25th January 2018
There is a lot in the media at the moment about deer and the need for a cull. Despite the number of road casualty deer on the Ashdown Forest...
Trevor’s Week for 18th Jan 2018
Its been a large animal week here at WRAS, with swans, badgers and foxes all being dealt with. Rescuer Chris Riddington was just leaving for work when I had...
Trevor’s Week for the 11th Jan.
Happy New Year everyone. I hope you have enjoyed the 2017 review over the past few weeks, whilst I’ve taken a break. Christmas and New Year have not been...
Trevor’s Week for 4th Jan 2018.
Kathy had a rather painful rescue in Uckfield in June after I dropped a drain cover on her fingers! We were called out after some young lads could see...
Trevor’s Week for 2017
Hi All, Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be looking back at 2017 to some of the most memorable rescues. 2017 was yet another busy year for...
Trevor’s Week
This year has seen been a record breaking year for WRAS. We have dealt attended or admitted over 3000 casualties for the first time, July has been our busiest...
Trevor’s Week for 30th Nov 2017
We have had a spate of swan crashing recently, as you may have already read in previous weeks too. We are advising motorists to keep an eye out for...
Trevor’s Week for 23rd Nov 2017
Congratulations to both WRAS volunteers Kathy Martyn and Daryl Farmer, who attended the BBC Sussex & Surrey Community Heroes Awards on Monday night. Kathy was a finalist in the...
Winter Warmer Appeal By Sussex Animal Charity
A Sussex Charity is gearing itself up for a busy winter after an already busy year taking in sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. East Sussex Wildlife Rescue...
Trevor’s Week for 9th November 2017
Monday turned out to be a rather busy day with our ambulances dashing around all over the place. The day started with me being woken up about 2am with...
Trevor’s Week for 2nd November.
For the first time this autumn / winter I woke up to a sheet of ice covering the ambulance windscreen. Temperatures are starting to drop to the point that...
Trevor’s Week for Thursday 26th October
We have a very special little creature in care at the moment. An amazing hazel dormouse. Over the last few years we have started to see more and more...
Trevor’s Week for 19th Oct 2017
Its that time of year when we are starting to admit quite a few road casualties. Last week we rushed to the aid of a badger hit on King...
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...
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...
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...
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 27th July 2017
This new little hedgehog has joined our orphan room this week after being found out during the day, in Moore lane, Ringmer. We have quite a few like...
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...
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...