Some Of Our 2025 Transports...

A Nestling Jay...

• On 3rd June of this year, UKWT Driver, Rachel, gave up her time to transport this nestling Jay to the really brilliant Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital.  Our Drivers aren't allowed to take photos of the wildlife they're transporting - under our UKWT welfare policy - while the animals are under UKWT's temporary ownership, so it's always really appreciated when Rescues send us pictures of the animals that have been transported, after drop off.  What a stunner! 🌿

A stunning Weasel...

• We very rarely transport these clever, gorgeous creatures - a little Weasel - so receiving a picture of this little one, once it had arrived at the Rescue, was a delight.  This bundle of trouble was transported by our kind Driver, Gavin, to Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue, on 25th September 2025...

Precious little Gull Chick...

• This is another of our transport cases from this summer.  Look at that little face!

This Gull chick was transported from Medivet Heswall to Cuan Wildlife Rescue this summer.  Thank you to Medivet for taking the youngster in and providing emergency care to make them safe & stable & thank you to Cuan for taking the feathery person in afterwards, to raise them, to go on to a wonderful life back in the wild...

A Grounded Bat...

• Looking back on cases from this year so far: this stunning Bat was transported by our very kind Driver, Aileen, to Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue, on 28th August 2025, for emergency care. What a beautiful creature...

Oliver, the Duckling...

These are very blurry pictures but I love them, none-the-less! The top pic is of little 'Oliver' the duckling, newly hatched, found alone in Anglesey on 1st June 2025 (the family who found him followed advice from a Rescue and waited at a distance for a long time to see if mum would come back, but Oliver was truly alone). He was taken by the family to Parc Vetcare in Bangor, North Wales, who checked him over and kept him safe. Cuan Wildlife Rescue, in Shropshire, was the nearest Rescue who could kindly take the little one in for us, so our fab Driver, Liz, drove all the way down from Shropshire to pick Oliver up and transport him there. He had a heat source all the way to keep him snuggled & warm.

The second picture is from another of our kind Drivers (also called Liz, who both drives for UKWT and volunteers at Cuan Wildlife Rescue) who took the pic to send to me to share 'not-so-little-anymore' Oliver's progress. You can see him at the back left of the crate. He is with his new flock, waiting to go out to the pond at the Rescue, for his last bit of rehabilitation, before being released back to the wild... I hope he's having the best time out there now, living wild & free.

A poorly Swift...

• This poorly Swift was found by a member of the public & taken to Cromwell Vet Group, on 19th May 2025.  The bird was found under a parked car.  On being checked over by RVN, Rhiannon, & a Vet at the practice, the right eye lower eyelid was bruised and swollen - the actual eye itself was ok - and the bird also had creepy crawlies under their feathers.  As well as organising transport for this feathery person to Animals In Need, for ongoing care, that same day, we also helped the Vet Practice by putting them in touch with a Wildlife Care Advisor that we fund (a veterinary professional, who is also Head Of Animal Care, at a RSPCA Centre) who helped chat over the case with the Practice, to ensure the little one got the necessary first aid treatment required pre transport...

An adventure for a Fox Cub...

• As I look back on UKWT's efforts in 2025 so far, I'm sharing about the incredible, all equally deserving creatures that we have transported this Spring/Summer & Autumn. This is one of my personal favourites: a fox cub, who had an adventurous day being transported from Anglesey to South Essex, on 10th June.

She was found as a tiny cub when a den was - we think - disturbed. She was raised by a kind member of the public, who wanted to keep her as a pet BUT who accepted that this absolutely wasn't right for her. A local Rescue took her in temporarily but the cub needed to be with other cubs of her own age to be re-wilded up & released, to go on to live the full wild life that she deserved.

Time was of the essence so there was a lot of phoning around and getting of advice to find a Rescue who had cubs of the same age who could take her in. The nearest & best option was South Essex Wildlife Hospital.

The youngster was transported in a comfy carrier with a towel over the top, so that it was totally dark inside for her. She snoozed the whole journey - uninterrupted by the Driver, who left her alone to keep her calm, and who kept the car totally silent, with no radio or other noises - and the cub appeared pretty relaxed about it all on drop off, thankfully.

This was the first time that UKWT had funded a hotel for a Driver: it was a significant distance to have covered in one day, so we funded a hotel for the amazing Driver, Hannah - who gave up 2 days, overall, to help the cub - so that she could be fully rested after her long drive, before heading back to North Wales the next day.