Born to Be Wild

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Born to Be Wild: Series 2: Episode 4

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Head of birds Lorraine is forced to ‘take her work home’ during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lorraine, the head of birds at the wildlife rescue centre, is forced to ‘take her work home’ during the coronavirus pandemic. This means a houseful of goldfinches and collared doves.

Head of birds Lorraine is one of the most experienced and dedicated members of the SSPCA rescue centre staff, hand-rearing hundreds of baby nestlings and nursing dozens of injured birds back to health each year. But this is a year like no other, and in mid-March, the lives of the centre staff are turned upside down by the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lorraine is forced to shield at home, but she isn’t going to let the pandemic get in the way of her work. Two collared dove chicks she names Dave and Daisy follow her home, and it isn’t long before she’s also caring for orphaned goldfinches, a concussed robin and even a mute swan, which crash-lands in a field next to Lorraine’s home and is transported straight back to its home on Loch Leven.




Born to Be Wild: Series 2

A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland


Series following the team at the SSPCA’s wildlife rescue centre.

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