October 21 [Day 56] I did the first 2.5 hours and then the count was capably taken over by Denise, Dawn, Pat, Doug and Teresa as I had to go to Calgary. They had a chilly day with the temperature only reaching 0C from a low of -2C, and a WNW wind all day generally gusting between 25 and 30 km/h. Cloud cover was altocumulus, cumulus and altostratus ranging from 100% at 0800 progressively down to 5% at 1800. The dynamic of the raptor movement was similar to that of yesterday with the first Golden Eagle moving at 0825 and 108 of the day’s 196 raptors counted before 1200. The afternoon movement was steady but with lower numbers as again squalls developed to the west producing flurries in the afternoon, and the last birds were 2 unidentified eagles moving south in the gathering gloom at 1838. The 11 Bald Eagles was the highest daily count so far this season, 10 Sharp-shinned Hawks pushed the season’s total above 1400 for the first time at the site, 3 Cooper’s Hawks was the highest count since October 6 and 1 of the 2 Red-tailed Hawks was the 43rd “Harlan’s” of the season. Both Pine Grosbeak (55) and Grey-crowned Rosy-Finches (930) had their largest movements of the season so far but as has been the case for the last few days White-winged Crossbills have been relatively scarce with only 21 moving today. At Mount Lorette Joel Duncan, Des Allen and Jamey Podlubny counted 87 migrant raptors of which 73 were Golden Eagles and 7 Bald Eagles under somewhat more pleasant weather conditions. 11.67 hours (645.51) BAEA 11 (113), SSHA 10 (1406), COHA 3 (233), NOGO 6 (162), UA 2 (55), RTHA 2 (197), TLHA 1 (41), GOEA 157 (4237), UE 2 (3), MERL 2 (29) TOTAL 196 (6658)