I had a mission!

 I had a mission. Well, two errands. First of all, I wanted to go to the Little Library at our municipal offices and find some books. I had 4 to drop off! I picked up 4, and I am good to go.

From there, I was taking our empty wine bottles and beer cans to our Lanark Animal Welfare Society, who is collecting empty bottle as a fundraiser. We don't drink beer, but JB always goes to the beer store to find some snappy cans of beer for our kids when they visit. 

Last time we visited, there were boxes were all over the lawn. Now, they've put them all in the shed. I think. The beer store isn't recycling, due to COVID. Well, some stores are back on track, if they have a drive-through, as far as I can tell. 

 

As I drove along, the clouds were stunning. 

The vultures are still around. They will leave with freeze up, moving farther south. In the meantime, they hover about, cleaning up roadkill. This was a poor little raccoon.

They are magnificent birds, serving a purpose. These are archived photos.

I stopped to photograph the hawk atop the dead tree. It was reluctant.

I love the contrast.

This is my favourite!

Back at home, most of our migratory birds have left, but there was one red-wing blackbird singing in the tree.

 

Red-wing Oct. 17 from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.