Tivacudda the otter cub was found by Jack Irvine in a field on the island of Yell. She was squealing as only otter cubs can...
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Storm Caroline washes up grey seal pup Cooper
On Friday 8 December people in Shetland were checking their properties for damage after Storm Caroline rampaged across the isles with winds measuring more than...
Snolda the grey seal pup from Papa
We received a phone call from Sabina Holt Brook on 21 November about a white coat – a grey seal pup – she and the...
Releasing Mimi & Rommy
We finally released our two common seals Mimi and Rommy on 13 November 2017, five months after they arrived at Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary. Normally our...
Releasing Charlie the otter
Charlie arrived at Hillswick seven months ago from North Nesting where he was abandoned by his mother. We later heard that she’d had three cubs,...
We’ve reached our target – 500 pledges!
Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary is absolutely delighted to be able to announce that we have reached our initial funding target of finding 500 people to pledge...
Rescuing Oskar the otter
Our latest arrival turned up last night when we got a knock on the door at about 8pm just as we were sitting down for...
Rescuing a pilot whale from Vidlin
A pilot whale got into difficulty in Vidlin marina in July 2017. Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary coordinated a rescue over three days after the whale was...
Cutting grey seal free from fishing line
Last Tuesday we received a call from Karen Henry from Mossbank who was greatly concerned about a seal who had befriended her fisherman father. Alan...
Rescuing Rocky the otter cub
There was good and sad news last week on the otter front. Late on Saturday 10 July we received word of two otter cubs in need of...