Another Baby Hare Arrives

Late last week, a hare arrived.

He looks quite snug, doesn't he? Many times people find baby hares in the wild and try to rescue them. This is usually a bad idea; often these little creatures can't take the stress of being handled and moved around, and don't survive. Even at the AWI we have had bad luck with baby hares this year.

Meanwhile our mallard ducklings have made remarkable progress.

Below is a picture taken on July 24th, less than a month ago, back when these two ducks were just fuzzy little ducklings.

Hare-y Situation

Recently we have had so many animals in our nursery we had to move some into another building. Pictured below are some hares we received yesterday.




We are expecting a few more arrivals this evening. If time has taught us anything, it's that we will probably be even busier as June progresses.

Two More Arrivals

a small hare, delicate as glass

Pre-Schoolers Visit

Two classes of preschoolers and their parents came for a special visit today. Although the grounds are not open for the public, the AWI makes special arrangements with individual schools to allow access to this exceptional experience. Although today's visitors were preschoolers, classes of students at all educational levels visit, including post-secondary classes.


Although the students are particularly young, many essential messages, such as instilling a serious respect for nature or the necessity of knowledge about a person's immediate surroundings for example, transcend age. Although rehabilitation is regular part of our regime, AWI is not simply an animal hospital. The implication of such work is the importance of the unveiled deep and widely impacting environmental trends.

the raccoons hid at first, but the we were quiet and they eventually came out to see us

the kids feed our resident hinny, Piglet, some carrots

a friendly gosling


Intern Maxine shows the children a young fox

...and a baby raccoon