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Episode 8

Episode 8 of 10

April and Juanita hand-rear a beautiful injured and orphaned fallow deer which they name Snow Drop. Meanwhile, specialist vet Romain and his family are getting busy with buzzards.

Every summer, the Wildlife Rescue Centre sees the admission of many orphaned roe deer fawns. However, this year the roe fawns are joined by an orphan belonging to a different species – a young fallow deer with some nasty wounds on his legs. It puts extra pressure on acting head of large mammals, April, who needs to train up Juanita and the other wildlife assistants in the art of deer rearing. The team name the orphaned fallow Snow Drop, and with his leg wounds neatly healed by vet Liam, he is relocated to a centre in the south of England, where a larger group of fallow deer is already preparing for life in the wild.

Meanwhile, centre vet Romain is getting busy with buzzards. One has been admitted with many of its feathers broken, but soon Romain is at working imping in new feathers, which means using fresh feathers attached with superglue and cocktail sticks! The next day, Romain and his children release the imped buzzard into the wild accompanied by some other rehabilitated buzzards.

58 minutes

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Executive Producer Nigel Pope
Executive Producer Jackie Savery

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