Sweetbriar’s annual Wildlife and Craft Fair

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This box turtle was found August, 2014 on the side of a road. He was obviously a dog chew toy, based on the wounds on the shell. As you can see from the first picture this turtle suffered from multiple puncture wounds to his shell and needed to be bandaged. After 2 years of rehabilitation here at Sweetbriar he was able to be released today!! The couple who had brought him to us will be bringing him back to the exact location he was found. The second picture shows him fully healed and ready to go home! Due to the fact that turtles have an internal homing device they have to be returned to where they were found. If a turtle is found and you would like to help, you can help them off the road in the direction they were moving. Good luck little buddy!!

Wildlife Baby Shower

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Yard Sale for Wildlife Saturday & Sunday

Dear Friends of Sweetbriar We recently received a call from a parent who has sent her three children to Sweetbriar's summer program over the past couple of years. She asked us if we could give her a scholarship to allow her three children to go to one week of our summer program. She has stage 4 cancer. We are giving her the week at no cost. In order to defray the cost of the one week program we are reaching out to any individuals, families, businesses or organizations who are willing to give a donation. Our goal is to raise the $870 needed to cover a one week program for three children. Your kindness and generosity would make a big difference for a family that could use both. 💙❤ If you are making a donation you can send us a check made out to Sweetbriar Nature Center or go to the home page of our web site and scroll down to the bottom and click on the Just Give or Pay Pal buttons. Please specify what the donation is for.

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We've been getting a bunch of questions regarding how the Great Horned owlet we renested is doing... and we are happy to report he is doing amazingly well and getting in his primary feathers. Here’s a recap of the story… About 2 weeks ago we got a phone call from a student at a local high school about two baby owls on the ground. During the night a storm had knocked down the nest from atop a pine tree to the ground. Sadly one of the owlets did not survive the drop. When our staff arrived we examined the surviving owlet for injuries. When it was determined he was healthy the mission became to renest & reunite him with his mom who was watching us from a neighboring tree. Our friends from Hoyt Farm came over with a ladder & helped secure what would become the owlet's new nest in the tree. The "new" nest was checked the next day and we were excited to see evidence that mom had been there because she brought food for her young and has continued to do so. A huge thank you to the young man who instead of just using his phone to take photos of the owlet, used his phone to call us to help save the owlets life! Also a huge thank you to the staff from Hoyt Farm!

Families ring in spring in Smithtown

Check it out- our Spring Festival on Fios1news! A huge thank you to everyone that joined us, making it wonderful event. Please if you took photos share them to our page we'd love to see them!!

Timeline Photos

We've been busy all day getting ready for our Spring Festival & Egg Hunt. "Ginger" our resident rabbit is also super excited to meet everyone. Hope to see you all. https://www.facebook.com/events/511536999054013/

Spring Festival & Egg Hunt

Ssssensational Snakes

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Busy night at Sweetbriar, while we were having a program about nocturnal animals, a pair of our dedicated volunteers went on a Great Horned Owl rescue! The owl unfortunately got caught up in a homeowners soccer net. Please do not leave out nets in your yard, local wildlife often get tangled up. This is not the first raptor we've removed from a soccer net, however this can be easily prevented. Luckily this owl has no permanent damage and will be released.