The Heat of the Moon: a Rachel Goddard Mystery (Rachel Goddard Mysteries)
“What did I know about her, really? She was the parent who’d raised me, but in many ways she was as much of a mystery as my dead father.
My head ached. I couldn’t eat. I was grateful for the excuse to escape when my rehabber friend Damian Rausch arrived to pick up both me and the red-shouldered hawk.
The bird was less than thrilled about being grabbed just as he was settling down for the night, then stuck in a cat carrier and taken for a ride, and ultimately pinned on a cold steel table at the v...et clinic. He protested the only way he could: he opened his beak and hissed. If Damian and I hadn’t been wearing falconers’ gauntlets, we might have lost a finger or two.
“Ungrateful little bastard,” Damian said affably. He restrained the bird’s body while I extended its wing under the tube head of the x-ray machine. Damian, who looked a little like a hawk himself with his beaky nose and hooded dark eyes, had been rehabbing raptors for twenty years, and showed none of the tension I felt at handling such a dangerous yet exquisitely delicate creature.MoreLess
My head ached. I couldn’t eat. I was grateful for the excuse to escape when my rehabber friend Damian Rausch arrived to pick up both me and the red-shouldered hawk.
The bird was less than thrilled about being grabbed just as he was settling down for the night, then stuck in a cat carrier and taken for a ride, and ultimately pinned on a cold steel table at the v...et clinic. He protested the only way he could: he opened his beak and hissed. If Damian and I hadn’t been wearing falconers’ gauntlets, we might have lost a finger or two.
“Ungrateful little bastard,” Damian said affably. He restrained the bird’s body while I extended its wing under the tube head of the x-ray machine. Damian, who looked a little like a hawk himself with his beaky nose and hooded dark eyes, had been rehabbing raptors for twenty years, and showed none of the tension I felt at handling such a dangerous yet exquisitely delicate creature.MoreLess
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