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Wishing you Happy Holidays
from our Wild Care family to yours.
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Pictured from left: Leah Myrbeck, Eva Carbonaro, Jennifer Taylor, Stephanie Ellis,
Amy Sanders with Garv, Chelsea Peck with Mallory, Gionet Hasson, and Kerry Reid
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Giving Tuesday Donations are a
Wild Success!
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Goodness, we have no words. Thanks to your generosity we exceeded our Giving Tuesday fundraising goal! Your donations totaled $18,145 which includes a $5,000 matching donation from a generous donor! These funds will go a long way towards helping to care for our wildlife patients.
Thank you for your generosity
and thoughtful notes!
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Eddy Foundation Grant Provides Funds for Storage Solutions
in Wild Care’s New Building
We are incredibly thankful for a generous grant award from the Eddy Foundation. The Mary-Louise Eddy and Ruth Eddy sisters were two generous philanthropists and Brewster residents who devoted their lives to the preservation of open spaces, wildlife, pets, and a good quality of life and enrichment for people. Wild Care is fortunate to be one of the charities they cherished. They have supported us through their Estate for over 18 years and we are grateful for their continued support. This generous grant award will cover the cost of custom built storage solutions in our new Education Center, wheeled carts for dishes, crates and laundry, an additional washer/dryer stack that we've added to our new cleaning room, and an exam table for our new exam room.
Photo: Molly Karlson, Eddy Foundation, Fiduciary Trust Company with Stephanie Ellis
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411 Main Street, Dennis Port, MA
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There's Still Time to Get Delicious Chocolate
Made on Cape Cod
and Support Wild Care
If you are looking for a reason to eat more chocolate, this is it! Stage Stop Candy has put together a special collection of milk and dark chocolate made by hand and beautifully wrapped exclusively for Wild Care. Boxes will be available online and in-store until December 31st. Give a gift that gives back. For each box sold, Stage Stop Candy will donate $5 to Wild Care.
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Snowy Owls are Here - Here's How to View Them Safely | |
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Winter on Cape Cod brings with it the return of Snowy Owls. These magnificent birds are such a spectacular sight along the many coastal areas that they can create quite a frenzy of people trying to get a close up look or perfect photo. While viewing Snowy Owls it’s important to be respectful of them, give them some distance, and if you post photos, please don’t disclose the location to avoid a rush of owl paparazzi.
Visit Wild Care’s Snowy Owl web page to get some great facts about Snowy Owls, tips on how to view them safely, learn more about studies being done to protect them, and watch Lower Cape TV’s video of Athena, the Snowy Owl rescued, rehabbed, and released by Wild Care in February 2022.
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Is that a Penguin in Your Driveway? Winter Storms Bring Dovekies to Unusual Places Around Cape Cod
Winter storms can blow tiny Dovekies into parking lots, driveways and other locations that are unusual for a bird that spends most of its time in the open ocean feeding on plankton that they catch underwater. Dovekies weigh in at about 6 ounces and look like tiny penguins. For a little bird, they are a lot of work and require frequent high calorie feedings with a tube-feeding formula and tiny fish, and spend as much time as possible in our seabird therapy pools to stay waterproof.
If you find a Dovekie on land, it is most likely exhausted and in need of specialized care. It is important not to put it back in the water. Place it into a box in a warm quiet place and do not offer food or water. Call our wildlife helpline: 508-240-2255.
LEARN more about Dovekies
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And then there
were three...
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We have three Cory's Shearwaters in our care. All of these birds were found beached in different locations in Provincetown and Eastham, at different times. One had abrasions on its feet from a dry landing. We are working on getting weight on them, waterproofing, and getting them conditioned for life back out on the open ocean.
Cory's Shearwaters are long-distance migrant seabirds that spend their lives at sea when they are not breeding. They breed largely on Portuguese Islands. We love having them as patients. They are docile and quite beautiful.
Cory's Shearwaters have an incredible sense of smell and can navigate and find food by scent.
READ more about Cory's Shearwaters
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White-winged Scoter Recovering From Injury in Wild Care's
Therapy Pool
This stunning White-winged Scoter was found on a road in Woods Hole suffering from an injury possibly caused by a dry landing. A winter resident on Cape Cod, these beautiful birds spend their time here in the ocean using their sturdy bills to eat shellfish. Although a salt water bird here in the winter, they return to Canada to breed and can be found on lakes and ponds. They nest on the ground in brush, and lay 9-10 eggs.
This beauty is recovering nicely and getting waterproof in our therapy pool. Wild Care staff are monitoring the bird to be sure there are no internal injuries, and have not found any external injuries or fractures. We are very hopeful for a full recovery!
LEARN more about White-winged Scoters, and hear
their unique call
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Wild Care Seeks Unique Experience Items and
Gift Cards for our UPCOMING ONLINE AUCTION
Wild Care is planning an online auction to start on January 28th and run through February 7th. We are looking for fun and unique experiences - Think vacations, event tickets, tours, restaurants, and gift cards. Items are needed by January 24th.
Please contact Eva for donations and more information
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And the Lucky Holiday
Basket Winner is...
Congratulations to Beth Trahan, the lucky winner of our fabulous holiday basket! This beautiful basket includes incredible prizes from Birdwatchers General Store, Brewster Book Store, Oceana, Hole in One, Orleans, Rock Harbor Grill, Lost Dog Pub, Orleans, Dune Jewelry, Oceanair Himalayan Salt Cave, and Corner Store, Orleans. We hope you enjoy the prizes Beth! Thank you to everyone that entered and helped raise $1,030 for wildlife!
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Bird Watcher's
General Store Hosts Wild Care Day on
Shop Small Saturday
It was a full house at the Bird Watcher's General Store on Shop Small Saturday! Guests enjoyed a meet and greet with Nickerson, Wild Care's Animal Ambassador Eastern Screech Owl, and Wild Care received over $750.00 in donations.
Thank you Mike O'Connor and the crew at "Birdland" for hosting us, and for all the support year-round!
Pictured is the friendly staff at Bird Watcher's General Store with Owner Mike O'Connor
and Nickerson the Eastern Screech Owl
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Did you know that every time you shop at Bird Watchers General Store and don't ask for a bag, they donate 25 cents to Wild Care? It really adds up!
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Nauset High School Students Create Wildlife Jewelry
for Wild Care
The students of Jody Craven's Independent Learning Jewelry Making Class at Nauset Regional High School designed, created and donated one-of-a-kind necklaces, earrings, and pins to Wild Care as part of a class project. Each piece was inspired by their love and respect of wildlife with a desire to make a difference. Thank you to Jody and his talented students for this amazing gift!
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Wild Care Receives
Donation from Ring Brothers Marketplace Community Raffle
We extend our thanks to everyone who participated in the Ring Brothers Marketplace Summer Community Collection Raffle. All proceeds from the raffle benefited local charities, including Cape Abilities, Wild Care, & Cape Cod Ambassadors. We are grateful to have been selected as a recipient of a generous $500 donation!
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Ceramic Birdhouse Holiday Bonus a Wonderful Success
The response to Wild Care’s Holiday Birdhouse Campaign was astounding. We sold out of birdhouses within an hour and received over $1,100 in donations! These beautiful birdhouses made for us by local potter and Wild Care Volunteer Jane Barry of JEB Pottery were filled with fresh local greens and topped with a sweet Black-capped Chickadee ornament from Harvest Barnstable.
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Wild Care Staff Make Gingerbread Houses
for Wildlife at Annual
Holiday Celebration
Gingerbread houses are a fun way to get crafty during the holiday season. At Wild Care we wanted to share that holiday spirt with our wildlife friends. Seeds, nuts, berries, suet, fruit, and peanut butter mixed with evergreens make a beautiful display and tasty treat for birds and other wild critters. They’re fun to make, and even more fun to watch who comes by to visit!
These photos are a few of the wildlife gingerbread houses we made at our annual Wild Care holiday gathering. We hope they inspire you to make your own!
Thank you to Shaw's in
Orleans for donating
the gingerbread houses!
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A New Year's Resolution Worth Keeping!
Monthly Donors Save Wildlife Every day.
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Make a New Year’s resolution that’s easy to keep - Become a monthly Wild Care Donor! Any amount from as little as $5 each month goes a long way towards the year-round care of our wildlife patients. This year, we've received 20 new monthly donors totaling an additional $730 per month. Wow. It all adds up! Give monthly and save wildlife every day. | |
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Check out our Amazon and Chewy WISH LISTS and donate much
needed supplies to help the animals being cared for at Wild Care.
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