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We’re still caring for over 50 patients this winter, including our very last admission of 2025. Meet Patient 25-871, a charming Silver-Haired Bat! 🦇

Between caring for nearly 900 animals, answering over 3,000 hotline calls, presenting 45 education programs, and completing some transformative renovations, we’ve been busy at Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary. Read about some of our most memorable patients from 2025!

He’s teeny, but his appetite is impressively huge. Meet our featured patient this month: an adorable baby Meadow Vole!

Our featured patients this month stole our hearts…though they were sometimes difficult to find. Can you spot the critter in question? 👀

Remember the adorable red fox kit we featured back in May? We’ve got an exciting update!

It’s not every day your nest gets struck by lightning. However, that’s exactly what happened to our featured patients this month: four nestling Red-headed Woodpeckers! 😮

Our wildlife patients get only the very best when it comes to wildlife rehab haute couture. We were privileged to bear witness to a true fashion statement from Northern Mockingbird 25-514 this month!

June’s Patient of the Month came to us last Friday in quite the predicament. Meet patient 25-356, an Eastern Ratsnake who came to RWS literally tangled up in knots! 🪢

We spent late March wondering, “Where are the fox kits?!” Typically, we admit our first orphaned kits shortly after the spring equinox. While opossums and baby songbirds began pouring in, our rabies-vector species nursery was comparably quiet. Until…