Thursday, May 17
5:00 am
It is +7 °C, with a high forecast of +15 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers late this afternoon. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light this morning. High 15. UV index 5 or moderate.
Tonight Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers early this evening. A few showers beginning overnight. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h this evening. Low plus 4.
11:50 am Geocaching
I needed a find for this date, so drove over to a geocache on the west side of Lethbridge. The drive was to a new subdivision which includes a branch library as well as a high school. The roads are finished but it is difficult to figure out where they go. Anyway I finally parked at the library and walked about 500 feet to the cache site where I made a quick find.
- GC3H8MX - Crossing the Lake
There are only 99 blank spots left on the grid of days for the year, 3 of which remain in May.
2:30 PM Birding
While taking my regular coulee walk I saw a "shorebird" in front of me on the trail. This was on the upper level after I had left the coulee and was in an open grassland area. In all the times I have walked this trail, this is the first time I have seen a bird like this. A check of my books indicates that it was an Upland Sandpiper. This is another "lifer" for us.