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Eagles update
Article on Shooting From The Hip http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/shooting-from-…
Read MoreFallen eaglets saved, get new home
Article on Daily Herald http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110601/news/7… Two bald eaglets and their parents have a new, sturdier home today in place of the one destroyed in Sunday’s storms. That nest in a skinny pine tree on the western edge of the Mooseheart campus came crashing down when a branch broke. The eaglets, who were in it at the…
Read MoreAfter nest destroyed, Mooseheart eagles taking to man-made home
Article on Chicago Sun Times http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/5721432-423/aft… Mooseheart’s eagle family appears to be settling in at their new man-made home. The Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington and The Care of Trees of West Chicago on Tuesday constructed a new, sturdier nest after the eagles’ nest fell from its perch in an 85-foot-tall pine tree on the…
Read MoreEagles adjust to new nest
Article on Beacon-News http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/5720815-418/e… Mooseheart’s eagle family appears to be settling in at their new man-made home. “All indications are positive that mom and dad eagle are accepting their new nest,” Dawn Keller, executive director of the Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington, said Wednesday.
Read MoreEaglets Get Their New Home
Article on WBBM Newsradio 780 http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/01/eaglets-get… CHICAGO (WBBM) — Two six-week-old bald eaglets that were tossed out of their nest by storms in Kane County over the weekend are back in a newly reconstructed nest – as a lot of humans wait for the parents to come to the new home.
Read MoreVolunteers save baby eagles
Article on Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/videobeta/e27ea2d2-1… Dawn Keller of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation describes efforts to return eaglets to a tree at Mooseheart in Batavia, Ill., after a storm damaged their nest. (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune)
Read MoreEagles’ nest gets encouraging news
Article on Kane County Chronicle On Tuesday, workers from Barrington-based Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation worked with personnel from The Care of Trees in Naperville to buld a new nest. Wednesday’s step was key. The question: Would the baby eagles’ parents feel comfortable with …
Read MoreStorm topples Mooseheart eagles’ nest
Article on Southtown Star http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/5695094-522/stor… Mooseheart’s eagle family has a new, man-made home. On Monday night, security staff on the Mooseheart campus found the weekend’s strong winds had knocked the eagle’s nest out of a pine tree on the northwest corner of the grounds near Randall Road. Wildlife experts rescued the two eaglets in the nest,…
Read MoreStorm topples Mooseheart eagles’ nest
Article on Beacon-News http://beaconnews.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/in… Mooseheart’s eagle family has a new, man-made home. On Monday night, security staff on the Mooseheart campus found the weekend’s strong winds had knocked the eagle’s nest out of a pine tree on the northwest corner of the grounds near Randall Road.
Read More‘Sad-looking’ coyote discovered trapped at Loop Metra station
Article on Chicago Sun Times http://www.suntimes.com/5127247-417/sad-looking-co… A female coyote that looked “like Wile E. Coyote after a rough day with the Road Runner” was unharmed and taken into the care of the proper authorities after she was found trapped at a Metra station in the Loop Sunday morning. “The call came in to us about 7…
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