It’s a bit late for grey seal pups to come in, and end of season pups can sometimes be a trial. Last year we had...
Archive for category: Seals
Cooper the grey seal goes outside
Cooper the grey seal has been growing fat indoors on 15 herring a day, so is now ready for the big pool outside. He wasn’t...
Releasing Snolda the grey seal
Snolda the grey seal pup came from Papa Stour in early December where he was found in a field. He had already been found in...
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...
Mimi and Rommy are inseparable
Our two peerie selkies Rommy and Mimi are both settling in well to their new surroundings and love being in each other’s company. It’s a...
Second common seal Mimi arrives from St Ninian’s
It’s been an exciting week with our first two common seals of the season coming in…and Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary reaching its latest target of 300...
Rescuing Rommy, our first common seal of 2017
The common seal pupping season has begun one week earlier than usual at Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary with the arrival of Rommy, an orphaned pup found...
Sinclair and Sam unwell
Sad times at Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary. Our two late season grey seal pups are struggling. Sam and Sinclair were both pretty poorly when they first...
Gemma & Sal release
Sal & Gemma were a right pair of characters – and polar opposites, especially in their eating habits. While tiny Sal swallowed fish from the...
Sinclair arrives
After our unexpected call out to rescue Sam in Scalloway on Tuesday, we were surprised to receive another call out on Wednesday night after Steven...
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