Rainy day agin

Got the hawks out early,   Then set them out to clean their enclosures and equipment.  I aways get soaked when I clean their enclosures.  So I changed into a dry shirt.   It was a muggy day, with rains threatening.  So I had hoped to clean their boxes before more rains set in.   I flew one of the hawks around the pool in the afternoon.  She was reluctant, the air was heavy, hard to fly in,  and  it was hot and she just wanted to sit on the statue and watch.   Few grackles were out that morning around the key as well.  Afternoon rains came in and I quickly put the weathering hawks back, getting soaked again in the process.   So I changed my shirt again to a dry one.  Then this afternoon, after the rain, I ordered supplies (small flashlights) to place in the hawk boxes to illuminate the interior for when the come in.   Evening patrols started later, around 6:30.  The grackles and starlings were again at the office building, not at the park nor the eatery.  Two hawks, the ones that stay close were kept on T posts and flown back and forth until after 8:00.    The grackles and starlings had moved on by then.  A walking survey was done few grackles were in the trees.    Evening was ended then.