The other day I went to the Cascades Raptor Center. The last time I went was just before the equinox.
For whatever reason, the place was packed by 10:10 AM. I was glad that I had pulled into the parking lot fairly early. I'm guessing that it was a combination of many of the schools being out, the Olympic Trials being in town, and a recent lifting of some COVID restrictions. There were lots of little kids, and I could tell when 11:40 hit, because (as I remember from a decade ago) that's typically when they hit the pre-lunch sugar crash.
It was peculiar to be there with so many other patrons.
Since I've visited, the resident raptors' aviaries have moved around: Banjo has moved up the hill, Amazon's aviary is gone, Kali is living where Dante used to, and Dante lives where Archimedes was. Other residents have moved, some have passed away, and there are new raptors on the site.
Danu is still chatty and still in her usual site.
I didn't clear my camera's memory, so I ran out of space for tons of pictures this time around. I still managed to get a few.
The new thing I learned is that vulture's heads are iridescent. Kali the vulture's head glimmered like the throat of a hummingbird when she was in the sun. In the past I've either been below the vultures or the sun hasn't been out, so I've never noticed how dazzling red their head's can be when viewed at the right angle.
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