Tonight Jay will drive me to the airport to fly to Newfoundland, where it will be cooler but perhaps no clearer. This morning it wasn't hot here and I realized that l hadn't packed for low 20s or high teens. We've had high 20s and 30s for weeks, 44 days with no rain. We would have broken that record and gone well beyond except that on the 45th day some drops fell for a few minutes in parts of Vernon. I was lucky enough to be outside at the time and get a brief wif of wet earth.
My friend Patrice invited me to go with her to the Allan Brooks Nature Centre on Saturday morning. She had won two tickets to "the Raptors ". It was an impressive show and we got to wear a thick leather glove and have a spectacled owl, red-tailed hawk and kestrel sit on our upraised hand.
Jury, the turkey vulture, with the young man who talked entertainingly about all the birds but was most informative about these vultures and their extraordinarily acidic systems.
Elton, the spectacled owl of indeterminate sex.
Patrice with Elton
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