PALM SHORES, Fla. — Florida Wildlife Hospital in Brevard County survived Milton just fine, but now they are filled to the brim with hundreds of animals that are now in their care.

More than 250 animals were dropped at the hospital for care, including baby squirrels whose nests blew down, seabirds and migratory birds.

“We’ve been slammed, yeah,” said Florida Wildlife Hospital Director Tracy Frampton.

Frampton said once the storm passed it became an all-hands-on-deck situation for staff and volunteers.

“As soon as it was safe to drive Thursday morning, things started coming in,” Frampton said. “It really beat them around. We had quite a mix of species that came in this time.”

She added that for many of the migrating birds, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

One had already been tagged — which showed it to be 26 years old, and that it flew to Florida from North Carolina.

“They didn’t check the radar when they left, so they got caught up in it too,” Frampton explains.

Now, Frampton said it’s a matter of time while each is nursed back to health, and then later released back into the wild.

The hospital is in need of financial donations to buy food and supplies, and they have a wish list at floridawildlifehospital.org.