Rescued birds settling in at new $2 million digs at Fontenelle Forest

[Omaha Steve]

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Fontenelle Forest
An artist’s drawing of Raptor Woodland Refuge, a $2 million facility that will open at Fontenelle Forest next month for hawks, vultures, falcons and other birds of prey.


http://www.omaha.com/living/rescued-birds-settling-in-at-new-million-digs-at-fontenelle/article_4580d32d-bc2b-5739-bb02-b194129f325b.html


POSTED: TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2016 1:00 AM | UPDATED: 1:26 PM, TUE JUN 21, 2016.
By Blake Ursch / World-Herald staff writer

Charlotte the falcon can’t see well.

Someone found her on the street one day, far below her home atop the Woodmen Tower. A neurological disorder makes it difficult for her to navigate and find food.

So Charlotte has joined several other birds of prey like her — rescues, unable to survive in the wild — at Fontenelle Forest’s new Raptor Woodland Refuge, which opens to the public July 16.

The $2 million expansion is the Bellevue forest’s biggest project in more than a decade, said Joe Vavak, spokesman for Fontenelle Forest.

FULL story at link. The forests great marsh is in the view from our house. Marta and I are members of the forest: http://www.fontenelleforest.org/ & http://www.fontenelleforest.org/get-involved/membership

What to do (in Nebraska) if you find an injured raptor: http://www.fontenelleforest.org/found-raptor