Flint Creek Wildlife Recruiting Rescue and Recovery Volunteers

By Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation | July 18, 2007

Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation is establishing rescue and recovery teams that will patrol buildings in Chicago’s downtown loop each morning during migration in order to save birds that strike buildings. These birds will be transported to Flint Creek Wildlife’s nearby Northerly Island location where they will receive prompt medical care for treatment of their time-sensitive…

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Life Lessons

By Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation | July 15, 2007

I suppose that if life’s lessons were easy, they would last a day or two rather than a lifetime. Life’s lessons, instead, must be so visceral that we cannot ever again deny them so that they effectively become part of our being. I share this story in the hope that this one person’s life lesson…

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White-tailed Deer Drama

By Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation | May 26, 2007

This story is not for the squeamish…read on if you dare…. A couple of nights ago, we received a call from a Lake County Sheriff regarding a White-tailed Deer caught in a fence at a Long Grove golf course. While en route to that location, we received a second emergency deer call – this time…

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Red-tailed Hawk Recovers from Spinal Trauma

By Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation | April 25, 2007

We were blessed by divine weather last Friday when Patrick, an adult Red-tailed Hawk, returned to the wild near St. Patrick’s School. Patrick had apparently struck a window in the courtyard of St. Patick’s School in January, causing head trauma and significant spinal trauma. We began around-the-clock supportive care for Patrick that included fluids, medication…

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