Open Sky Raptor Foundation

10/13/2026

Hello Wildlife Rehabbers and Friends,


Back in March, Ontario’s Endangered Species Act. Was repealed and replaced with one to move land gulping projects faster. This is a petition to fight back from Green Party to save Ontario Wildlife. This is not politics; it is trying to save the land our wildlife; especially endangered species, need to survive.



I have copied much of the rhetoric in the petition so you can decide if you wish to go online to sign or not. Cancel Bill 5: Ontario’s Wildlife Needs Its Legal Protection Back. | Ontario Greens ‘s link https://gpo.ca/action_campaign/nature/?source=C26.E.NATR should take you there.

You've really got to watch our own Mini Trump, he's getting too big for his britches.


On March 30th, 2026, the Ford government repealed Ontario’s Endangered Species Act. For almost two decades it was considered the strongest law of its kind in Canada, because it protected both endangered species and their habitats from any activities that would harm them. Now, it’s gone. In its place is the Species Conservation Act, 2025, a law built to move projects faster, not to keep species alive.

The new law shrinks “habitat” down to a den or a nest and the ground immediately around it, not the wetland, forest, or shoreline an animal actually uses to feed and raise its young. Expert review is gone: a developer registers a project online and can start as soon as the developer declares the project qualifies, with no government decision in between. Recovery strategies are no longer required, and a list of activities is excepted from registration entirely. Woodland caribou, barn owls, and golden eagles are all left exposed by it.

More than 100 species were dropped from Ontario’s list of species at risk, including the endangered and threatened fish and migratory birds now left to the federal government. For most land-dwelling species at risk, federal protection applies only on federal land, which covers less than five per cent of their range. And because the new act exempts itself from the Environmental Bill of Rights, work that could wipe out an at-risk habitat no longer has to be posted for you to see, let alone comment on.

We have seen this pattern before. Greenbelt land handed to PC donors. Conservation authorities forced into amalgamation. Farmland paved for highways nobody asked for. Ontarians filed more than 61,000 comments opposing Bill 5, and Doug Ford passed it anyway. The rich and well connected get the decision, and the rest of us get the consequences.

Cancel Bill 5: repeal the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 and the registration-first regime it created.

07/25/2026

Check this out: The Taco man has done himself one more 'evil' policy decision on endangered species.
Clue in those last 6 words.
His Mini-me (in Ontario) has been doing this too.
I am wondering if the two of them are trading what to do next to p**s off the world

06/09/2026

Save The Date - Art Sale For The Birds

Fuff Fuff Fuff Wild Bird Sanctuary invites you to an art sale on Saturday, June 27, from 1-4 pm at the Markdale Community Church

This fundraising event supports our rehabilitation efforts, which are made possible by community donations and personal funding, as rehabbers are unpaid volunteers.

The funds raised will be allocated towards veterinary care, medication, and nutrition for the birds.

Hope to see you there, please share to get the word out.

05/30/2026

05/07/2026

It's that time of year - baby season!
It's not just raccoons or opossums, it's so many other animals out there 'making' families. One of the biggest that are seen all over are goslings!
These cuties are the "I want to cuddle" critters that need the warmth and protection of their parents.
But sometimes that just isn't available.
So, if you see a gosling running around on its own, take a step back and see if mom and dad are around. If it's in the middle of a road and life is in danger, then yes, pick it up and get it out of the way. But still look about and see if parents are around.
DON'T try and put it with any geese with goslings that you see. They may or may not take it with them but come nightfall they will abandon it as it is not theirs. I have seen this countless times.
It's like they will babysit for the day but come night 'go home' attitude. A lot of people will watch them during the day and think, "that's great, they've got a mom and dad who has taken them in" and they leave. Not knowing what the night holds for the gosling.
NOT ALL GEESE ARE GREAT FOSTER PARENTS.
If someone tells you to take it back to where you found it and the parents will find it, then you may be relegating the baby to certain death. That type of advice is only good if you have done that in the first few minutes of finding it and the parents are actually honking nearby and baby runs to them or parents come at you for having their baby!
Goslings are easy to raise, but imprint on humans very quickly. In fact, the first thing they see in life, when their eyes are seeing well enough, becomes their 'momma'
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
Well, if you have truly found an orphaned or injured gosling (or any other baby animal -'cept the human kind), contact a rehabber.
But first MAKE CERTAIN they are taking in birds/babies/waterfowl. Some rehabbers have birds on their list but because of Avian Influenza they actually won't take in ANY birds (and sometimes if they do, they will euthanize it - just because).
It's a sad world, yes, that allows fear to lead our first reactions.
But there are people out there who know how to care for them, how to make it so they don't imprint on them, and how to release them back into the wild so they once again have a chance at freedom.
It's okay if you ask questions of a rehabber. Just know that you have 24 hours to get that bird to a rehabber.
Just know your rehabber and know that as cute and cuddly they are, they do grow into large, p**p everywhere, very territorial birds with wings that hurt like hell if they attack and their bite isn't soft either.