||| FROM SHONA AITKEN for WOLF HOLLOW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER |||
Happy New Year fellow islanders! Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center would like to remind you that we are here to help wildlife in need. It’s easy for this to slip your mind until you find yourself needing our help when your cat catches a songbird or an owl flies in front of your car. While we are an organization that works quietly behind the scenes, we are available to help, even during the pandemic.
For those of you who are new to the islands or who haven’t heard of Wolf Hollow, allow us to introduce ourselves. Wolf Hollow is a state and federally licensed wildlife rehabilitation center located on San Juan Island that serves all of San Juan and Skagit counties and northern Whidbey Island. Our professional staff members and trained network of volunteers across the region help assess wildlife situations, rescue injured or orphaned animals, and provide care for a wide range of wild creatures from hummingbirds to eagles. Wolf Hollow has cared for over 200 species of local birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians during its 36-year history.
How can you reach us? Call 360-378-5000. (Please don’t use email or Facebook messages when animals are in need of care).
If you are on San Juan Island and find an injured or orphaned wild animal, we kindly request that you call the center before bringing an animal to us. This ensures that a staff member is available to receive it, and we can observe Covid-19 precautions by getting all the information we need over the phone ahead of time. When you arrive, we can then do a quick, no-contact transfer of the contained animal outside our main building.
Our winter on-site hours are 9:00AM until 4:00PM every day. If you have a wild animal emergency after hours, we continue to be available. Call the main line to receive instructions on contacting the on-call staff member.
Wishing you all the best in 2021.
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Do you offer trainings to community members for helping stranded migratory songbird nestlings? I am interested in such training. It would also be so great if you wrote monthly articles about some of the issues that affect wildlife, and how we could or should address those. Such as educating people to not hose off or take down any nests where a bird is sitting – swallows’ nests especially – but all birds. What can we do to help the creatures that are beneficial and eat the “bad” insects, for example? Things like that.