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January 3rd, 2009
A Strange year
60 seals were treated by the Sanctuary in 2008, making it the first time for many years that numbers have dropped. Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) came down from 46 to 28 ~ mainly because the problem of very high tides washing away new born pups did not repeat itself this year. Seals getting entangled in [...]
July 28th, 2008
Animal Rescue reviews
52 animals were admitted in the first 5 months of 2008. Thankfully, seal arrivals fell slightly when compared with the same period as last year; 16 of the 22 cared for were grey seals (Haliochoerus grypus) and 6 were common seals (Phoca vitulina). 2 of the grey seals were badly tangled in netting and one [...]
The Misses Hollond Aviary
The aviary has been named to commemorate the lives of three sisters who were great friends to the Seal Sanctuary for over 30 years. Without their support I doubt if we would be here today – so I hope they would have approved of this aviary, the largest we have ever built.
With dinosaurs on your mind take a fresh look at the inhabitants of the Misses Hollond aviary – all the birds seen here have evolved from a dinosaur ancestor. Emus have changed little in 80 million years so you should not have to stretch your imagination too much to see the resemblance but even the golden pheasants and guinea fowl have their origins at about this time. The emus came to us as a result of Cleethorpes Zoo closing down in 1977.
