September 3 [Day 9] A mainly pleasant day with temperatures ranging from 5C to 11C,winds from the NW to W generally between 10 and 25 km/h, and 70-90% cumulus,altocumulus and stratocumulus cloud yielding sunny periods all day. After 1300squalls with occasional thunder developed all around the site, but we got away withonly the occasional light shower until 1800 when towering cumulonimbus cloud moveddown from the north. I left the site just after 1800 as rain and hail began to fall,which became heavy after 1820 as the ridge was enveloped in low cloud. Raptormovement was dominated by accipiters with 22 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 2 Cooper's Hawksand an unidentified Accipiter moving between 0855 and 1721. At 1747 I heard ravenscalling high in the air and looking up saw 6 birds soaring high ahead of theapproaching storm front, one of which was an adult light morph Swainson's Hawk, thesecond of the season and the only non-Accipiter migrant of the day. Passerinemovement was even better than it was yesterday, with new single-day high counts forRed-breasted Nuthatch (359, 12 more than yesterday), Townsend's Warbler (10) andWilson's Warbler (50), another Olive-sided Flycatcher and the first Western WoodPewee of the year, and a strong southward movement of Clark's Nutcrackers involving60 birds in two flocks. Other migrants included 9 Golden-crowned Kinglets, 8Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 16 Mountain Bluebirds, 9 Townsend's Solitaires, 19 AmericanRobins, 36 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 5 White-crowned Sparrows, 15 Dark-eyed Juncos, 1Cassin's Finch, 7 Red Crossbills, 157 White-winged Crossbills and 106 Pine Siskins.During my retreat from the ridge I came across a mixed flock of birds shelteringfrom the rain in and around a large Douglas Fir, which included a female AmericanRedstart which was a new species for the area and the 144th recorded so far. Intotal we counted 942 birds of 29 species, both highs for the season. In spite of allthis the sighting of the day was our first ever Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel thatwas right at the site on the ridge top. I managed to get some good photographs ofthe animal otherwise I probably wouldn't have believed it myself as it is almostcertainly the highest record of the species (1900 m) and probably the most westerlyas well. At the other end of the size scale an adult brown-coloured Black Bear wasthe fifth individual seen in the area since the start of the count. 11.25 hours(99.25) SSHA 22 (55), COHA 2 (8), AU 1 (1), SWHA 1 (2) TOTAL 26 (103)