WRAS attended as no other rescue organisation was able to attend according to the person who called us.
Arron, Tony and I drove up to the farm. The deer had its antlers caught in netting from a round hay bale, which had then become caught in a barbed wire fence. This was certainly one of the most difficult deer we have ever dealt with due to the bushes and small trees crowding the deer and the barbed wire fence.
There was just very little space to work in. However, the deer's head was covered and as the deer tripped up we were able to pin the deer to the floor and start cutting the antlers free. As with the previous deer, once free the deer stood up and stared at us for a few seconds before realising that it was free and ran off.

We had a road casualty deer on the A22 at Maresfield on Saturday night at 11pm, when the police called us out.
An MG car clipped the deer which then had a near miss with a lorry and then was hit by a car which did not stop.
The MG owner did turn round and called the police.
Tony and I arrived on site, quickly loaded the deer on board and drove to the vets. The deer luckily did not have a broken spine but had damaged its pelvis and had cracked a few ribs. The deer was medicated and we spent three hours trying to stabilise the deer but unfortunately it did not survive.

We have had some success in releasing casualties over the past few weeks.
We have been doing one or two releases a day recently.
A collard dove which was found in an industrial yard a couple of weeks ago has been set free. It was wet, cold and suffering from canker. It had been present for more than three days before staff called WRAS for help.

A road casualty fox from Hastings was released this week after being rescued about three weeks ago.
The fox luckily had no broken bones but several injuries to the back and legs.
It recovered well and at about 10.30pm last week the workers meet WRAS at the industrial estate just to see the fox go free. Without any sign of injury the fox ran off back to its territory fit and healthy.

A number of pigeons, some gulls, a magpie, a hedgehog caught in netting and some swans have also been released. One swan split its beak which had to be glued back together.

We had a call from Seaford on Saturday afternoon. On arrival rescuers Natalie and Tom found an unusual bird which turned out to be a fire crest. These are very unusual birds and this is only the second which has ever been found by WRAS. As they are such specialist birds and eat a very limited food source the bird was sent to Folly Wildlife Rescue.