Raptors Spotted at Flint Creek Savanna
Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation offers bird of prey exploration.
Winds began to swirl and temperatures were dropping quickly as class participants began their journey along the trail around Citizens for Conservation-owned Flint Creek Savanna. All listened attentively to Dawn Keller, President of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation while being instructed how to behave when approaching each of the volunteers holding a live bird. The crowd was thrilled to see their first raptor, a small male peregrine falcon named Sovereign, weighing only about one pound. Everyone learned that peregrine falcons are easily found in downtown Chicago roosting on the edge of skyscrapers and have diving speeds of over two-hundred miles an hour. Walking further into the prairie with the winds whipping at their faces and…
