SPCA Serving Erie County: CONTINUING TO SERVE
May 5, 2020 — Yesterday morning, the SPCA’s Wildlife Department received a call about a nesting mallard who had been struck and killed by a car the night prior. The homeowner knew where the nest was, and [the homeowner called because] the babies were starting to hatch!
When our Wildlife team arrived on location, half of the 14 eggs had hatched into fuzzy babies; the other ducks were still pipping out of their eggs. Without a mother, however, the ducks that remained in 
their eggs had become very hypothermic and were struggling to escape their egg-ey confines!
All 14 babies and eggs were brought to the shelter and incubated. It was a rough start for the eight that were hatching, but by the end of the day, all duckies were alive and recovering in the incubators!
–Dawn Karipidis, SPCA Serving Erie County
May 5, 2020 — While many businesses are required to pause their work during our health crisis, animal shelters are on the list of essential businesses in New York State. This means that, while limiting what we can offer Erie County, we can still do everything possible to serve the people and animals of our community, and that includes wild animals.
To the delight of area birdwatchers, warblers have begun arriving in the past few days. In the spring, these tiny colorful songbirds migrate huge distances from their wintering grounds in the tropics to their nesting grounds in the north. The first to arrive in late April are pine warblers and palm warblers, followed soon after by yellow warblers and yellow-rumped warblers. The first two weeks of May are when we really see the full range of warblers passing through, from the understated black-and-white warblers to the beautiful and elusive cerulean, blackburnian, and prothonatary warblers.
volunteers coming in to care for them starting next week! We also received two goslings who are now being fostered by a nice family of Canada geese at Tifft Nature Preserve!
