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Where Feathers Meet the Flash Photo Contest

Submit your picture of a native wild bird at McKinley Woods for a chance to win! This Forest Preserve District contest runs through May 31.

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Calling all photographers! Celebrate migratory bird season with the second annual bird photography contest hosted by Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channahon.

Where Feathers Meet the Flash Photo Contest runs through Saturday, May 31, so there is still time to enter.
Submit your picture of a native wild bird at McKinley Woods preserve for a chance to win a gift certificate to the Cornell Lab Bird Academy and new bird-feeding supplies from Wild Birds Unlimited of Joliet.

Visit Four Rivers Environmental Education Center to check out recent sightings and get directions to the best spots for taking photographs of birds in their natural habitat.

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Register your bird photo by scanning the QR code at the photo submission stations along the trails and in the visitor center for the duration of the contest. Complete contest rules are included on the submission form.

McKinley Woods hours are 8 a.m. to sunset.

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