There are a few things that occur every spring here at the wildlife center. The arrival of baby squirrels, opossums and birds starts it off. At first one or two a day, then 10 to 20 a day and so on until every flat surface in the building is covered with enclosures of demanding little […]
A Beaver Tale
By: Allan Arce-Millard, Animal Caretaker Admission Date: March 19, 2016 Species: North American Beaver Cause of Admission: Possible Orphan Intake number: Beaver 01 Patient History On March 19, 2016, the staff of Carolina Wildlife Center admitted a rather unique animal, a North American Beaver (Castor Canadensis.) The beaver was found by a family on the […]
A Flood of Memories
Sunday, October 4th around 8:30 a.m. my wife woke me and announced that the water in the pond behind the house had reached the top of the dam and was beginning to breach over the road. She said our neighbors were moving cars out to higher ground, in case the dam failed. I moved my […]
No Bread For Birds
Like so many others, I remember going out into the backyard with my grandmother to feed the birds. She would take table scraps and day old bread and cast it around the base of the birdbath, and then we would sit on the back steps and watch as the birds gathered around to dine. She […]
An Insider’s Perspective: the people behind the caring.
From: Jay Coles, ED, Carolina Wildlife Center For just over two years I have been part of one of the most interesting organizations I have ever encountered. The world of non-profit wildlife rescue and rehabilitation has got to be one of the most fascinating, frustrating, enlightening, rewarding, exhilarating, exhausting and heartbreaking environments to work in […]
With fishing, like any outdoor sport, there are rules
Recently, we received a beautiful Canada goose from a caring couple that found it struggling and near death. The goose had become tangled in fishing line, Cajun Red monofilament to be exact. The fishing line was wrapped around the goose’s neck just below its crop. The crop is the expanded part of the esophagus that […]
