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XLVIII. The Nut House's guide to wildlife, chapter III
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XLVII. The Nut House's guide to wildlife, chapter II cont.
B: Eastern grey squirrels have two breeding seasons, spring and fall, so expect to be rescuing baby squirrels from late February through May, and again in late August through October. Many baby squirr ...
XLVI. The Nut House's guide to wildlife, chapter II
B: So here I am, as promised, to regale you with stories of small, furry rodents and their quest for world domination. Ok, maybe not world domination (not yet anyway), but the Eastern grey squirrel ce ...
XLV. The Nut House's guide to wildlife, chapter I
B: A while back (blog VI to be exact), Alicia and I touched on some common wildlife myths. Tonight, I would like to touch on a few more, flagrantly plagiarizing myself as I quote from Second Chance W ...
XLIV. The Nut House rings in the New Year...
B: ...by swearing when we all forget to write 2009 instead of 2008 when admitting new patients. Good evening, dear readers, and welcome to tonight's installment of Brittany, post-Alicia: Will the Wee ...
XLII. The Nut House gives thanks
(Pre-Script: Our original blog, posted on Thanksgiving eve, was lost in some cyberspace blackhole. Luckily, we saved this one to disk and have re-posted) B: Good evening, dear readers. While we do hav ...
XLIII. The Nut House loses a nut
B: Good evening readers. We here at the Nut House (aka Second Chance Wildlife Center) have some sad news to report: our own beloved Alicia is leaving our ranks to stretch her wings across the country ...
XLI. Relaxin' at the Nut House
B: Good evening, dear readers. While we do have some exciting news to tell you, things have been slowing down, as they do every winter. This fall season, we were able to release all but 44 of our fall ...
XL. Nut House Open House a success!
B: Good evening readers, exciting news tonight! Our Open House was a huge success, netting us over $4,500, the most we have ever made fundraising. The Bake Sale table managed to snag almost $400, a sl ...
XXXIV. The Nut House celebrates October
B: Good evening dear readers! What a busy month it has been and it is only halfway done! With exciting events and new intensive care patients, plus a pending court case over a raccoon, October is prov ...
XXXVII. Watching the weather at the Nut House
A: Good afternoon dear readers. We hope you are all enjoying this dreary, rainy afternoon more than we are. It’s amazing just how much of our job is dependent on the weather cooperating. Afterno ...
XXXVI. Not hibernating at the Nut House
B: It is 9 pm Thursday evening and no matter how many times I wash my hands, they still smell like squirrel. A: Like some wildlife version of Lady Macbeth, Britt had been scrubbing away at her tainted ...
XXXV. The Nut House braces for danger
B: Good evening readers! Those of you that, like Second Chance Wildlife Center, reside in Maryland, may have noticed the bumper crop of summer mosquitoes. All that extra rain we have been getting in t ...
XXXIII. Graduating from the Nut House
B: Good evening readers! Yesterday and today were full of pre-release evaluations leading up to, of course, more releases. Alicia spent much of yesterday afternoon on the phone, arranging for almost ...
XXXII. The Nut House variety show*
B: Another exciting week at Second Chance Wildlife Center! On Monday, one of our wonderful volunteers helped us empty all six of our outdoor squirrel enclosures, taking them to be released in the acre ...
XXXI. Snappers and Swifts at the Nut House!
A: Good evening dear readers! We hope this blog finds you all happy and healthy. Certainly not perched on a stool feeding baby birds as they scream in your ears. I think mine may be bleeding now as I ...
XXX. A chorus of birds at the Nut House
A: My goodness, this summer has certainly provided us with plenty of fascinating cases to tell you all about. Everyday we are lucky enough to be able to help out dozens of injured, orphaned or ill ani ...
XXIX. Full recoveries at the Nut House
A: Well, dear readers, it's been another long, hot day here at Second Chance Wildlife Center - the sun is blazing, the humidity is rising, the baby animals are clamoring and I am melting. Britt and I ...
XXVIII. Ducking overload at the Nut House
B: Good evening all! Tonight Alicia and I thought we would talk about rescuing ducklings and when to know if it is truly necessary. In the spring and summer months, Second Chance Wildlife Center gets ...
XXVII. Bye-Bye Birdie at the Nut House
B: Good evening, readers! So many new and not-so-new-but-vastly-improved patients to talk about. About three weeks ago, our commander Chris and our very own Alicia checked in an extremely emaciated an ...
XXVI. The Nut House needs a new home
B: Greetings all! As some of our most recent blogs have been getting mildly monotonous, what with the constant lists of intakes of the never-ending baby birds, tonight we thought we would talk about f ...
XXV. The Nut House weathers the storm
B: So many exciting things have happened since our last blog! Endless babies continue to arrive, as well as numerous injured adults, and we were out of power for a very touch-and-go 20 hours last week ...
XXIV. Pictures from the Nut House
B. No blog this week; Alicia is overseas visiting family. Enjoy some pictures instead. :) ...
XXIII. The Nut House enriches the lives of others
B: Good evening, readers! Welcome to another edition of Alicia and Brittany going crazy over feeding baby birds. The numbers of baby birds are, as always, increasing in number. In addition to the prev ...
XXII. Baby birds invade the Nut House
B: Good evening, readers. While the number of mammal intakes has slowed at SCWC, the baby birds are increasing. Already we have several dozen nestling House finches, House sparrows, European starlings ...
XXI. Spring cleaning at the Nut House
B: Well, another week has gone by and we are still overrun with squirrels. More show up every day as some citizens feel the need to remove trees from their yards without checking to see if there are a ...
XX. Going squirrelly at the Nut House
B: Good evening readers! So many more babies have crossed our threshold. More squirrels continue to arrive, much to our dismay as we have already surpassed our average number of squirrels received for ...
XIX. The Nut House fights the good fight
B: It is a never-ending battle of SCWC vs. Eastern Grey squirrels and alas, dear readers, we are losing. More babies have arrived and they keep arriving every day. While we have come to grips with the ...
XVIII. Spring has sprung at the Nut House
A: Hello everyone! Lately we've been getting quite busy with all of the wonderful patients that spring brings us. There have been a few more American Woodcocks, a couple baby bunnies, a handful of rap ...
XVII. Chugging along at the Nut House
A: Goodevening readers! I told you we would be back. Squirrels, critical patients, endless phone calls and babies can't keep us from informing you all about ins and outs of wildlife rehabilitation. Th ...
XV. Nut House prices
B: Often, a concerned citizen is worried that they will not be able to cover the costs accrued by the injured wild animal they brought through our doors. After we reassure them that, as a 501(c)3 non- ...
XIV. Passing through the Nut House
B: Exciting news! SCWC has recently received not one, not two, but THREE Horned Grebes. We rarely intake this specie, but when we do, it is usually when migration and ice storms merge. As highly adapt ...
XIII. Still no pets at the Nut House
B: To err is human; even the best of us make mistakes. Many a summer morning one of us will arrive at the Center to find a box on our stoop. While we frown upon this practice (as there is usually no n ...
XII. Updates from the Nut House
A: Hi everyone! We thought you all may want to know how the patients mentioned in a blog two weeks ago are doing now. So here we are with updates! B: Blondie squirrel is doing much better: eating ever ...
XI. Stylin' at the Nut House
B: As the winter season is still heavily upon us, this week we have decided to describe different rehabilitation styles. Second Chance Wildlife Center is unique in that we have five licensed wildlife ...
X. Happy and healthy at the Nut House
B: Updates! The two Snapping turtles we mentioned last week have improved! The fungal infection on the smaller turtle is clearing up very nicely and has become nie undetectable on the larger snapper. ...
IX. No pets at the Nut House
A: Hi everyone! This afternoon Brittany and I checked in two young snapping turtles, both of whom had been kept as “pets” and then given to our local Humane Society. As these animals are o ...
VIII. The Nut House for higher education
A: Hello all. We hope you didn’t miss us too much last week. We took a week off from blogging as the holidays robbed us of our usual workers of volunteers and clinical staff and those of us left ...
VII. Winter season at the Nut House
B: This week we have decided to describe a “day in the life” of a wildlife rehabilitator, winter season edition. While spring and summer are always our busiest months with the onslaught o ...
VI. The Nut House dispels common wildlife myths
B: Tonight we feel the need to touch on some all too common misconceptions about our wild neighbors. A: It seems that the general public fear for the safety of their Bichon Frises every time any wild ...
V. Bird feeding tips from the Nut House
B: Looking for a gift for the hard-to-shop-for person on your holiday list? Make a donation in their name to a wildlife institution (including our local Second Chance Wildlife Center). As most of thes ...
IV. Top Five Wildlife Rescue Tips from the Nut House
B: With autumn winding down and winter starting, SCWC gets fewer and fewer patients, so we thought we would take the time to go over our general “Top Five Wildlife Rescue” tips. A: 1 - Ass ...
III. An old friend visits the Nut House
A: Look what I found in our driveway! B: It’s Tara! T: Hello everybody. A: Tara is one of our beloved Summer Staff persons who has cruelly abandoned us for vet school. Sumer Staff people supplem ...
II. A second chance (and sometimes a third) at the Nut House
A: And we’re back! The past couple of weeks at the Nut House have been very eventful and Brittany and I are eager to share our news with you. First item: SCWC recently received a Red-tailed hawk ...
Welcome to the Nut House
Allow ourselves to introduce.... ourselves. We are Alicia and Brittany, both wildlife rehabilita...
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