The Hammond Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation facility is functioning beautifully and all birds in care are doing very well. Over the weekend, as Bonnie moved over the area we experienced some good downpours but nothing major. All’s good!
Here’s what the inside of one of the warehouses looks like where all the indoor rehabilitation takes place.
Initially, the Hammond Bird Rehabilitation Facility will be capable of handling approximately 1,000 birds, and capacity could be increased to house as many as 2,000 to 3,000 birds.
It’s situated on the grounds of what was once a very large lumber yard with multiple empty warehouses and plenty of room for large outdoor enclosures. BP paid a local contractor to convert the vacant buildings to a oiled wildlife hospital.
The new wildlife center is 60 miles north of New Orleans above Lake Pontchartrain. The previous Louisiana center was located at Fort Jackson in Buras for the first three months of the Gulf oil spill. The new site is out of the hurricane ‘evacuation zone’.
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