Willowbrook Wildlife Center

This windy, cold, gray morning we traveled 25 miles/40 km for an appointment near where we formerly lived.  While driving I thought of the Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn, Illinois as a place to get an indoor photo of a bird.  Willowbrook is a DuPage County Forest Preserve native wildlife rehabilitation center, providing care and medical treatment for injured and orphaned animals. Willowbrook also provides educational programs on nature, and 20+ years ago we regularly took our kids to the facility.

This is a ring-necked dove, a bird which originated in Africa.  It is found living in the wild in the southern United States, and is a common pet. This bird continually coos.  I found the soft cooing nice for the time I was there, but it could be irritating to some. Staff was accommodating and took the dove out for me to see.

Took photos of other birds through screen cages.  Shooting through the screen made the photos a little soft, somewhat like shooting through nylon hosiery.  Will try it again in the near future when I'm in that area.