Brambles Wildlife Rescue

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Brambles Wildlife Rescue All wildlife patients are only accepted via appointment only

Our rescue predominantly covers Longridge and Ribchester area but will accept from other Lancs areas if finders can travel and subject to patient numbers within the rescue.

13/10/2026

Well done to winners Alison Nuttall with ticket 103 who won Prize 1 🎉 and Ethna Curley with ticket 47 who won Prize 2 💗 Please get in touch with us winners, I have also replied to your original comments x

Most importantly thanks to everyone who has supported the prize draw by helping with prizes or buying numbers. The rescue is struggling at the moment to raise the funds it needs to operate so little events like this are really vital for us, thank you from the animals. We will list a new one later in the week 💗🎉

13/10/2026

**Sorted thank you so much Janet B**

Still needing help 🙏 can anyone please collect a poorly pigeon from our vets in St Annes today at all please and drop off to us near Longridge anytime after 5pm? 🙏 Please PM if you can help x

Phillis the Pheasant looking resplendent in her Autumn colours, she has also started to regrow her tail now as part of h...
12/10/2026

Phillis the Pheasant looking resplendent in her Autumn colours, she has also started to regrow her tail now as part of her post breeding season moult. She has been in the aviary for several weeks preparing for the big outdoors again after recovering from being off her legs, doing the splits with a bacterial and Candida infection. Amazing to think this girl could not stand up no matter how hard she tried.

She will be back home in Lancaster before the end of the month, she's on the home strait now. She bit Justin on the day she arrived and had been feisty with staff at the vets but once here she never bit once, she seemed to know we were trying to help 💗 I'll miss her 🕊

Sometimes we are just in the right place at the right time 💗 As I was driving down Lower Lane in Longridge last Saturday...
11/10/2026

Sometimes we are just in the right place at the right time 💗 As I was driving down Lower Lane in Longridge last Saturday I saw ahead of me lots of feathers in the air and all over the road, and I could see a bird had just been hit. As I got closer I could see the driver had not bothered to stop and kept driving and the poor woodpigeon was dragging himself along the pavement unable to use his legs. I had a towel on my front seat over the carrier of another animal I was transporting and quickly used that to secure him. We have a suspicion this woodie was poorly and unable to fly well or possibly walk when he was hit. The car impact caused a lower spinal injury but from the varying lengths of new tail feather growth we suspect he had already been injured several days before as well as they couldn't all be explained by the annual moult.

Safely back at the rescue, he didn't open his bowels for 24 hours, very possibly due to swelling on his spinal cord. He had a heinous tummy once it started working again and canker and thrush were both obvious candidates from the smells. He was unable to move his legs for 24 hours after the car hit him and he has regained movement in one of his legs well, the other remains a little weaker at the moment. We have called him Chestnut 🍁🍂

Treatment is underway for those problems but we will be sending off a laboratory test to see if there is another underlying infection affecting his ability to stand, or whether it is the spinal injury causing this - to help guide the plan forwards for him. Lab tests cost us £100 each folks on top of other treatments for canker, thrush and antiinflammatory medications he is receiving so all help towards his treatment is greatly appreciated, especially as we already have £1200 to raise yet to cover October's costs on top.

Shame on the person who hit him and drove on. Your wiring is wrong.

Here are our links in case you can help us with the costs of his rehabilitation and the £1200 we have to raise to operate in October x 🍂🍁

Donate Via Justgiving card payments:
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/justinmel-greenhalgh?utm_term=XrVKD5RkM&utm_medium=FA&utm_source=CL

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Brambles Wildlife Rescue
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Red the Swan from Stanley Park in Blackpool arrived with us on Wednesday evening after the lovely team at TVHC xrayed hi...
10/10/2026

Red the Swan from Stanley Park in Blackpool arrived with us on Wednesday evening after the lovely team at TVHC xrayed his poorly leg that he was struggling to weight bear on and was barely using for swimming. A fishing hook was found deeply embedded in his skin that had caused infection and inflammation. Red is on courses of antibiotic and antiinflammatory injections to treat the infection, as well as aviary rest to give him chance to reduce mobility and prevent worsening the infection. He was struggling to stand on Thursday morning but has started to improve his steadiness now the medications are getting to work.

Red also has a Candida (thrush) overburden we have spotted and will treat for him whilst he is with us.

Red is the second angling injury case from Stanley Park that has required veterinary attention this week.

Blackpool Council have opened up their consultation again about reviewing or extending the current Public Space Protection Order that is in place there that has restrictions on fishing and dogs off leads and has the capacity to fine people for breaching it.

Our view is that the current PSPO hasn't 'protected' wildlife, people or dogs on the park as a recent FOI request established that no fines or magistrates court prosecutions have been issued to enforce it since its inception.

There is little point having a PSPO if it is not going to be enforced. Two weekends ago, before the Centenary celebrations, one of our supporters counted 84 people fishing outside of the permitted angling zone across the weekend. The wildlife officer role was designed to cover outside of core working hours, we know this as we co-wrote the job description to help the council. However, so far patrols at evenings or weekends have not been observed.

Please visit the questionnaire and offer your own view whilst the consultation is open:

https://online1.snapsurveys.com/Interview/b445e148-a109-4c30-836c-1d234b870cd3?fbclid=IwVERTSAU2vbpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHqvnkcrCKcI_8S3NFzWHc4mofdfpoB0z2ognyOhPxIY8vYrsJmMNXxIxtP2o_aem_GNfeQ6kYYVn-hQOpYMd-Bw

In the meantime we will continue to clean up the mess left behind and help the animals that have been failed by people.

Thanks to all involved x

3 hpothermic hedgehogs in from Longridge in the last few days, two sadly died soon after admission, too poorly to be hel...
08/10/2026

3 hpothermic hedgehogs in from Longridge in the last few days, two sadly died soon after admission, too poorly to be helped. Both had flystrike (and one with maggots), where flies lay eggs on hedgehogs collapsed or lying out in the open. One had a very deep dog bite wound in his tummy and was found at a cheese factory, another was found on the pavement this morning in Longridge and another found in a garden later today. The latter hoggy is currently warming in the incubator as we speak to see if we can stabilise him, we believe he also has lungworm. Well done finders for bringing them to help 💗

Sadly hypothermia is a critical secondary symptom to another injury or illness and causes them to come out into the sunlight to try to warm up. Once hypothermic, the risk of mortality is significantly high - but not impossible to recover from, there is still a chance with gradual warming to a stable temperature.

Please remember a hedgehog out in the day is generally not ok. The only exception can be nursing mothers moving with purpose in breeding season, but they would not be lying in the sun. If you see one, please don't wait to see if you see it again - the chance of you spotting the hoggy might be the only one chance they have 😢🙏

We liaised with our lovely vets TVHC yesterday afternoon about an injured goose at Stanley Park in Blackpool who needed ...
07/10/2026

We liaised with our lovely vets TVHC yesterday afternoon about an injured goose at Stanley Park in Blackpool who needed help to remove deeply embedded fishing line from it's foot. The vets are extraordinarily busy but managed still to help him yesterday before he was re-released to his family following debridement and antiseptics. Thanks to all involved.

This is the first of two fishing injuries so far this week from Stanley Park that has needed rescuing 😢

Lots of tickets still available for our lovely raffle that closes tonight at 8pm folks 💗🙏🍀🤞
06/10/2026

Lots of tickets still available for our lovely raffle that closes tonight at 8pm folks 💗🙏🍀🤞

03/10/2026

Snappy had his first day outside of the Intensive Care Unit today, which for some reason the gulls call 'The Seg' 🤔

Anyway, first job is to check out the communal bath facilities and give his undercarriage a good wash.

Immediately the other six gulls join to watch him bathe and ask him 'what he's in for' 🙄 So many seem to forget their injuries and illnesses, and instead swap stories about stealing fish and chips from pensioners in Blackpool and attacking tourists outside of Greggs 🤔

There is no privacy in pirate prison, or Gullcatraz as they like to call it.

Next job, trying to dig a tunnel out with their beaks (also known as 'The Banksy' they have created on the aviary side walls) ⚖️🪓

Well today was a little bit bonkers 🙈4 gulls and 2 pigeons released on the Fylde 🕊💗Two vet runs to St Annes with 4 birds...
30/09/2026

Well today was a little bit bonkers 🙈

4 gulls and 2 pigeons released on the Fylde 🕊💗

Two vet runs to St Annes with 4 birds for assessments, 2 returned home for continued treatment after xrays, 2 sadly went to the rainbow bridge (thank you to Sheryl and Lauren at TVHC for helping them all who were also very rushed off their feet!). Sadly Pickles the Hedgehog also lost his fight today from his underlying illness despite our best efforts.

1 hedgehog and 1 baby woodpigeon admitted for help 🦔🕊💗

4 cages steam cleaned ready for new patients

9 pet carriers all cleaned out after releasing and vet visits ready to be used again

1 personal vet visit for blood tests for our Simba too 🐈

Normal muckout of all the animals before and after work with a 5am start, oh and we both went to work as well in between.

I'll sleep tonight 😴 We don't tell you all this to be a martyr, lots of people work hard. We just see people turn their noses at us every week because we can't provide transport for them as well as the wildlife rehabilitation work we do as volunteers, as well as work. It happened today and we had very rude messages from someone on saturday as well who claimed to work in animal rescue and should have known better. They need to understand just what we do.

No matter how busy we are though, I always have time to stop and snap the rainbows behind Brambles. There were two tonight.

This one though was for hedgehog Pickles, and pigeons Rusty and Steph. Rest easy little ones x 🌈

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