Giving wildlife a second chance to be wild

Jackie Nunnery

by Jackie Nunnery

LANCASTER—With the opening of Red Fox Hill Wildlife Rescue, Northern Neck wildlife will have a new pair of helping and nurturing hands in Nancy McAdams.

Wildlife rescuer Nancy McAdams feeds an orphaned squirrel that was brought to her Red Fox Hill Wildlife Rescue in Lancaster. Photo courtesy Nancy McAdams

McAdams was already an experienced wildlife rehabber when she started the Lancaster rescue in 2022 after a move from Houston. There she had found a wildlife center looking for volunteers to do bottle feedings, which she would squeeze in from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. three times a week.

“I started volunteering with them, with the babies, because it was something I could do after my baby went to bed at night. It involved animals and I wanted something that got me out of the house to kind of do my own thing a little bit as a new mom. I just fell in love with….

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