This morning I saw an owl fly across the road in the semi-dark as I headed to the gym, and a peregrine falcon circling the building where they roost when I left. Coming through the park I heard a charm of goldfinches flying en masse, headed to eat and fatten up for the winter, hard to imagine now, when the temperature hit 104 yesterday. And a grasshopper hitched a ride through the park on the back windshield of my car.