Posts by Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation

Meepy, our educational Barred Owl, experienced her first Oktoberfest this evening. The Village of Itasca held a Business Appreciation Night to start their Inaugural Oktoberfest which runs this weekend Friday Sept 19 from 5-11 and Saturday Sept 20 from 3-midnight. In Meepy’s humble opinion it will be one fun party. She was a little concerned…

The flood waters at our Itasca location (located at the Spring Brook Nature Center) are receding. Left behind in their place is thick, goopy, smelly mud. A coating of mud and debris clings to the sides of the cages where our recently painted clean and shiny surface once stood. Some of the cages still have…

Any of you following this blog know about the flooding this weekend at our newest facility in Itasca. First, let me say that the rains stopped yesterday afternoon and the water stopped rising. We were finally confident that the Itasca building would not go under water. Knowing that all animals once in outside caging were…

Spring Brook Nature Center’s new lake, currently surrounding the entire building, now contains a flock of geese. The geese seem oblivious to the fact that their new lake is comprised of flood waters. The flood waters receded significantly during the night but have been rising again steadily during most of today. The water level is…

So last Sunday we gave an educational program over at Prince of Peace Church in Elk Grove Village. The church liaison introduced us by talking about Noah and drawing some comparison between our work and Noah’s work. Well, of course, the comparison was regarding working with animals, not building an ark….right? The rains came down…

Well, we intended on releasing this Great Horned Owl. He was flying great in the 60′ chamber but failed to pass his final exam! He’s back to flight training. Enjoy the photos anyway!

One of our volunteers called me stating that Old Red, one of the education Red-tailed Hawks at our Itasca facility, had a visitor. Interested, I followed her to Old Red’s mew (cage). I rounded the corner and didn’t see anyone standing there then, looking down, I saw Red standing low in her cage on a…

Today we released the following species of birds at the Itasca Nature Center, home of our newest Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation location: Common Yellowthroat American Redstart Chestnut-sided Warbler These birds were picked up in downtown Chicago this morning by our Rescue and Recovery teams after colliding with windows in downtown buildings. They received medical attention…

On August 21st, we admitted a Ruby-throated Hummingbird with a broken right humerus (major bone in the wing). We are so pleased to report that the Hummingbird is doing great and it looks like she may end up regaining full use of her wing thus enabling her to fly and be released back into the…

Labor Day was a day to celebrate the fruits of our labor and release nine fully-rehabilitated American Kestrels back to the wild. The release couldn’t have been more perfect – blue skies and the beautiful setting of our new Itasca location with its tall trees, open prairies and plenty of good habitat. Each Kestrel flew…