Second Chance Wildlife Center is housed in a historic Gaithersburg farmhouse surrounded by fields, woods, a marsh, and a stream. Several spacious flight cages, small mammal enclosures, waterfowl pens, and raccoon quarters are located on the adjacent lawns. Many recently released animals share the grounds with the permanent wild residents before moving on to establish their own niches in the surrounding fields and woods. To learn more about us, click here.
Jan 11, 2012 - Shop for a great cause on Wed, Jan 11th at Whole Foods Kentlands - 5% of net sales for the day will be donated to Second Chance! Click here for more info!
Dec 8, 2011 - SCWC must move to a new facility. Our current location is experiencing the typical symptoms of a 100-year-old farmhouse and we cannot stay where we have been for the last 16 years. Due to health and safety reasons, we can neither rebuild nor renovate the farmhouse.
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Aug 21, 2011 - Second Chance Wildlife Center is now under new management. Our phone number remains the same (301-926-9453) but our email address is now fhoward@scwc.org.
A Jewel from Mother Nature
It was an average day in June, meaning animals were being admitted left and right and we were struggling to keep up with the hourly baby songbird feedings, when a citizen arrived with another baby bird. She had been trimming branches when she suddenly noted a tiny creature on the ground. An ornithologist friend of hers had identified the baby as a hummingbird. The little hummer weighed one gram on admission, barely enough to register on our scale.
