Wildlife Care Association

I've been working at the WCA for about a month before, but this is my first time I've used the hours for CAS. I started doing 2 hours per week, but I'm now at 5 or 6 hours. The first hour or two, we feed the baby birds that are grouped by species in laundry baskets with food and water. But most of them don't eat the food unless they're weaning. After that, we start the dishes, and becasuse there are hundreds of birds and anywhere from 20-50 baskets, that's too many dishes to start at the end of the shift. While I usually do that, the other volunteers cahnge the newspaper and paper towels in the bottom of the baskets, and change the food and water.
I had no idea so much work went into rehabilitating birds. I thought you fed and then released them, but the birds need to be fed every 30-45 minutes, which takes up a lot of time. By the time you finish one section for the first feeding, it's time to start the next feeding back where you started!