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...
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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...
Rescuing a gannet entangled in rope
What an exciting afternoon we had last week when a young couple from Trondra, Richard Owen and Triin Tammsalu, knocked on our door to tell us...
Feeding Mimi & Rommy fish soup
(Photo: Barry Broadbent) The big news is that Rommy & Mimi are now getting fish soup instead of MultiMilk formula, as that brand has now...
Charlie finally shows his face
Believe it or not this is the first we have seen of young Charlie the otter cub since we put him outside in his pen...