Everybody enjoying the rain? I personally love this weather and, living in Pontypridd, I seem to be at the epicentre of the flooding right now - a neighbouring village, Treforest, flooded yesterday, the main road through Wales closed in several places today and there were 2 landslides in villages just outside Pontypridd (Cilfynydd & Trehafod).

You may be wondering what this has got to do with anything. It's this kind of weather where you have to think of the wildlife. Ok, hedgehogs are likely to be doing okay with the copious supply of snails and slugs (yuck) but insects would seek shelter in this weather, leaving birds without food. Also, excess water could flood burrows and setts or even cause the surrounding earth to collapse.

Please, please, please everybody keep your eyes open for suffering wildlife and give me a ring if you find anything that needs help - 07527 055 332. Although I only work in South Wales, I do have contacts across the UK.

One last plea - if you can spare some food, that would be awesome - wild bird seed in a sheltered bird feeder, cat/dog food for mammals but no milk and no bread - these have no nutritional value to mammals and cow's milk can even kill due to the large amount of lactose

Haven't really got an update on the ducks for you guys either - as much as I've searched, i still haven't been able to find a breed, although a fellow rescuer suggested it may be a gooseander due to the shape, so I'm trying to find different breeds.

Thanks for reading xxx