OAK and Furrows Wildlife rescue has been providing bed and breakfast for a grumpy guillemot that was found all alone on a road in Cheltenham.

The handsome birds normally live on seaside cliffs in the south and west, miles away from landlocked Gloucestershire and its presence there is a mystery.

It is also is the first time the centre near Cricklade has ever played host to one.

Founder Serena Stevens told the Adver it was found in the middle of the road by a man who was driving his dog to the vets.

The vets checked it over and gave it a clean bill of health before handing it over to Oak and Furrows.

Serena, who has been taking advice from the RSPCA’s West Hatch animal centre in Taunton, said: “He is very unusual. We have never had one of these guys in here ever. He is very bad tempered but he loves his whitebait.”

The bird was due to be transported to Brixham in Devon for release over the weekend.

Guillemots, the most common auk found in the British Isles, spend most of their lives at sea, only coming in to land to nest in huge colonies called loomeries.

Oak and Furrows is currently fundraising to save itself from closure after being inundated with sick and injured patients, including more than 160 hedgehogs, this year. In fact it has had to turn a training space into a treatment room to cope with the influx.

It needs to raise £50,000 by February be sure its future is secure.

Visit oandf.co.uk for information on how to help.