home from volunteering, finally cooled down enough that I don't feel like I'm going to immediately melt.
today had ups and downs. ups: saw a pileated woodpecker on the way to the bus stop & got a picture; while cleaning the aviary ward I got to see a red-breasted sapsucker try to escape, and a barred owl being vigorously annoyed at humanity; watched bobcat kittens being cute for a while; did satisfying work and did not die of heat stroke.
downs (animal death, not explicit)
unfortunately the owl that I'd seen last week didn't make it, which wasn't surprising--it was in bad shape, too bad shape for them to figure out what exactly was wrong with it, & it died overnight. also today we got a great blue heron who'd fallen out of a tree, and was very weak--similarly, they didn't know what was wrong with it, but it had lost a lot of blood. I wasn't in the room when it was euthanized, but I came in right after. the vet & I were both teary.
