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Eastham Police Officers with rescued ducklings
PHOTO Eastham PD
| Least Tern parent puppet made by Animal Care Coordinator Jennifer Taylor for chick feedings | Least Tern chick is observed before release | |
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Our Community Working Together for Wildlife
One of the many things that makes me proud to live and do this work on Cape Cod is the incredible support Wild Care receives from our community! There truly is no shortage of wildlife heroes willing to step up and put in the efforts to help our wildlife in need. Recently the Eastham PD did just that, taking care to safely round up several ducklings that were running around on Route 6 after their mother was killed from a vehicle strike. The surviving ducklings are doing well in our care and have graduated to our aviary where they will stay until they are old enough to be released. We were also so happy to be part of a heart-warming reunion of a tiny Least Term chick with its family. A keen-eyed Ranger from the Cape Cod National Seashore came across the chick that was injured and in respiratory distress. Our team stabilized the chick with oxygen and fluids even encouraging the chick to eat with the help of a puppet crafted by Animal Care Coordinator Jennifer Taylor on the spot to look like the chick’s parents! By the next morning the chick was ready to be reunited with its family which was located by a Cape Cod National Seashore Biological Science Technician. The technician waited and watched as an adult approached the young chick and fed it a fish. SUCCESS!
It takes many hands to make these success stories happen, and we are so grateful!
Stephanie Ellis
Executive Director
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SUMMER BABIES & PATIENTS
Here are a few of the recent animals in our clinic and nursery...
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1,356 Animals Cared for This Year and Counting...
Summer Appeal Donations Save Lives.
Sorry to ask, really, it’s not something we like to do, but it is something we need to do so we can continue to save our wildlife. Please give what you can to our Summer Appeal. Wild Care relies on your donations to provide lifesaving care for animals. We’ve treated 1,356 animals so far this year, with summertime being our busiest time of year taking many of our resources. Thank you for caring about Cape Cod’s wildlife. Every donation makes a difference.
Read the Summer Appeal and Success Stories Here
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Shining a Spotlight on our EXTRAORDINARY INTERNS
Summer is no vacation in the Wild Care clinic and nursery with the large amount of animal patients coming through our doors. Thankfully we have had two amazing interns Olivia Mendoza and Catriona Goering join our animal care team this year!
Olivia is an amazing, hardworking, compassionate person, and a talented artist who left sketches of her patients in our clinic. We are incredibly grateful for her!
Catriona’s past experience at MassAudubon monitoring coastal waterbirds was tremendously helpful to us with our recent Least Tern and Piping Plover patients. Cate was also very kind, and thorough. We really loved having her at Wild Care!
We wish Cate and Olivia well at school and with their next endeavors.
PHOTOS Kerry Reid
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Door Prize winner Bev Brooks
with Stephanie Ellis
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Wild Care Volunteers Celebrated at Volunteer Appreciation Night Party
Wild Care volunteers are the best around, and to show our gratitude and celebrate their hard work and dedication we hosted a Volunteer Appreciation Night at the Elks Lodge in Eastham. In 2022 our volunteers put in an astounding 5,701.75 hours, and we could not do what we do without them! Volunteer Coordinator Amy Sanders recognized the volunteers who contributed the most hours in 2022 - Roz Goldstein, Richard Collins, Barbara Bradley, Judy Bullard, and Marcus Seletsky. Animal Care Coordinator Jennifer Taylor challenged volunteers to a game of “wildlife trivia”, and volunteer Bev Brooks was the lucky winner of a bag full of goodies donated by the Bird Watcher's General Store.
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French Fries are
Better With Friends!
French Fry, the Herring Gull chick that was rescued from a parking lot of a Hyannis restaurant by our Marketing Director Eva over a month ago, was released with another young gull from Fall River. French Fry was just a fluffy chick when he was found suffering from head wounds. The Fall River gull was hit by a car as a chick and suffered a toe injury. Gulls are very social animals, and they enjoyed swimming together while in our care. They were released together in Eastham.
This release was sponsored by Eva, in celebration of her two sons Christian and Matt who both have birthdays in August and also love animals and French fries. This donation helped these gulls fly free again!
PHOTO Kerry Reid
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UPCOMING Community Events
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Join Wild Care at Eastham's Windmill Weekend Saturday, September 9th
Eastham Windmill Weekend has three days full of fun activities happening September 8th-10th! Join Wild Care Saturday, September 9th from 10am til 4pm on the Windmill Green. We’ll have awesome Wild Care merchandise, kids activities, and info. Stop by and say hi!
Get more information on all the Windmill Weekend happenings
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Celebrate Wildlife at a Family Friendly Festival.
Live Animals, Shark Expert Greg Skomal, and Walk Through a Life-Sized Inflatable Whale
Join wildlife organizations on September 9th from 10am until 3pm at Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary in Cummaquid, MA for a fun-filled day for the whole family celebrating Cape Cod's wildlife and unique habitats. Highlights of the event will be interactive exhibits, exciting and educational live animal demonstrations, walk through a life-sized inflatable whale, meet shark expert and author Greg Skomal, live music, food trucks and more. Admission and parking are free.
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"Two Artistic Approaches to Saving Wildlife" Presentation at Gabriel’s, Provincetown
Author Lynne Hugo and Photographer Elizabeth G. Brooke will discuss “Two Artistic Approaches to Saving Wildlife and our Environment” at Gabriel’s in Provincetown on September 23rd from 3:30 to 5:30pm. Signed editions of Lynne Hugo’s “The Language of Kin” will be available. No registration, admission is free, donations appreciated to benefit Wild Care Cape Cod and Friends of Cape Wildlife.
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Join Wild Care at the Rubber Duck Regatta
The The Dennis Conservation Land Trust will host its annual Rubber Duck Race at the West Dennis Yacht Club on Sunday, September 17th from 11am-2pm. Wild Care will join the fun with a kid’s duck craft, fun facts about ducks, and Wild Care merchandise.
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*All Rubber Ducks are contained and collected, and
no Rubber Ducks are harmed in this process.
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Chatham Police Department Welcomes the Public for a National Night Out
Wild Care joined the Chatham PD for their National Night Out. Kids had fun climbing on a giant inflatable dragon obstacle course, checking out the police vehicles, meeting the officers, and playing games. We enjoyed talking with guests about what to do and what not to do if you find wildlife, and helped kids make their own Animal Rescue Box.
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Eastham Public Library Hosts Attracting Native Birds to Your Backyard
The Eastham Public Library hosted Wild Care's Executive Director Stephanie Ellis, Animal Care Coordinator Jennifer Taylor and educational Eastern Screech Owl Up Up for an informative presentation on attracting native birds to your backyard.
You can attract screech owls to your backyard with appropriate habitat and nest boxes. They are a good bird to have around for natural insect and rodent control.
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Eastham Patrol Pals Meet Garv the Turtle and
Make Animal Rescue Boxes with Wild Care
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From Left: Animal Control Officer Stephanie Sykes with Garv,
Stephanie Ellis, Deputy Chief Deschamps,
and Detective Murphy
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Wild Care had so much fun meeting the Eastham Police Department PATROL PALS! Animal Ambassador turtle Garv joined Executive Director Stephanie Ellis as she talked about turtles, and what to do and what not to do if you find turtles or other wildlife that may need help. The Pals were so creative, and did an amazing job making Animal Rescue Boxes.
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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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