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Read MoreNews from Minton Farm + Please share our online petition to change laws to control wandering cats. A paper-based petition will be recognized by Parliament but a digital petition showing support will help!
Read MoreAs the day comes to a close, the swallows have returned to their favorite roost, (albeit blackened) the kangaroos are coming out of the scrub to eat pellets supplied by land owners to counteract their loss of grazing, and the burnt scrub takes on a beautiful face belying the grief of the loss of Scott Creek Conservation Park and the wonderful birds and animals within its arms. Such a loss to so many.
Read MoreThanks must go to Courtney Greatrex and Take5 Magazine for allowing us to reproduce this article. Read Bev’s inspiring story: “At my weakest point, I found my true calling”.
Read MoreMinton Farm is a not for profit charity which for the past 28 years has provided a free community service to assist injured and orphaned native animals and birds. Throughout the recent wave of bushfires Minton Farm has received vast numbers of heat stressed and burnt animals. These have been admitted to our intensive care unit for medications, wound treatments and therapy to recover.
Read MoreI have been rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing injured and orphaned native animals and birds at Minton Farm for 27 years now. There have been over 12,200 cases admitted to the intensive care facility. In addition to this there have been approx. 12,000 cases assisted via website, email, Facebook and phone inquiries. It has been a joy to be able to help the people that find the creatures and are desperately and compassionately trying to assist them.
Read MoreMindfulness. Hearing a bird call. Stopping to search and eventually finding him. Meditating is the method by which most people tend to try and attain this body-and-mind-improving state. So get out there with the birds to improve your health?!
Read MoreMinton Farm volunteers have been busy rehabilitating several birds of prey, namely Boobook owl, barn owl and peregrine falcon. Some have come in, in advanced stages of disease, eye damage and wing injuries.
Read MoreI would like to let you know that Minton Farm’s circular bird of prey flight is now completed. It is the first of its kind in SA and available for you all to access to rehabilitate injured kookaburra, tawny frogmouth, owls, falcon, hawks and eagles.
Read MoreWe hope you have had a happy Christmas Season with your family and friends. We have had a very productive time completing the circular bird of prey flight. There were several tawny frogmouths of varying stages of development, as well as many kookaburras. The most delightful was a peregrine chick from Saddleworth. It was rescued from being hit by semis on the Burra Highway!
Read MoreThere has been a huge increase in the numbers of ringtail possums coming into care, particularly from cat attack. As I write, there is a New Holland Honey Eater struggling for its life because of a neighbours’ cat slinking across a local’s garden with the bird in its mouth.
Read MoreThe busy (silly) season has begun abruptly with the arrival of 4 kangaroo joeys and several possum joeys in the same week. If you find animals or birds on the side of the road in a dazed state or with obvious injuries, the most important thing to do is to warm them up gently and slowly in a darkened quiet room by placing them in a box with a hot water bottle under one end of the box.
Read MoreI recently attended the biannual Australian Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference in Sydney. I took seven volunteers from Minton Farm, the majority of who were young ladies who had finished their honours at University last year and have come to Minton Farm to gain practical wildlife knowledge and experience. They all were highly engaged and motivated by the experience.
Read MoreWe have received a number of barn owls recently, some still strengthening their wings. One was flushed from trees at Noarlunga by magpies, and flew from the road into a gym window.
Read MoreIt is very clear to me how much the seasons and the weather affect the activity and the behaviour of our wildlife. Within the space of two days we were contacted about the welfare of 7 possums, two Tawny Frogmouths, a Boobook owl and a Barn Owl! It had apparently been a full moon and the wildlife were responding to it!
Read MoreLast season’s Spring flush lasted for 4 months, with a huge volume of injured and orphaned possums, lorikeets, tawny frogmouths and owls finding their way to our wildlife rehabilitation centre.
Read MoreHillbillys Café at Blackwood is asking for food for the animals to be placed into their wheelbarrow under the Christmas tree outside the shop to assist rescued animals at Minton Farm this Christmas.
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