October 22 [Day 57] Winds were WNW-W all day gusting 50-60 km/h most of the time but diminishing slightly after1700, and the temperature rose to 5.5C from a low of -3C. It was almost cloudless at 0800 but altostratus, cirrus, cirrostratus and lenticular cloud rapidly developed reaching 90% by late morning and then disappeared as rapidly after 1300 leaving almost cloudless skies for the rest of the afternoon. After the torrid pace of migration of the last 10 days today’s movement seemed rather sedate and there were several half-hour gaps in the action, but raptors moved fairly steadily all day between the first Golden Eagle at 0846 and the last Rough-legged Hawk at 1818 with the busiest hour (1000-1100) seeing the passage of only 17 birds. Only 5 species of raptor moved with 84 of the day’s 109 migrants being Golden Eagles. With 9 birds moving today the Northern Goshawk seasonal total has now exceeded the previous high count for the site of 166 set last year: new seasonal site records have now been set this year for all three Accipiter species. Finch movement comprised 786 Grey-crowned Rosy-Finches, 35 Pine Grosbeaks and 25 White-winged Crossbills. Two of 5 Grey-crowned Rosy-Finches feeding near the site at 0810 were the coastal subspecies littoralis (“Hepburn’s Rosy-Finch”), the first time they have been recorded at the site this season. 11.5 hours (657.01) BAEA 10 (123), SSHA 4 (1410), NOGO 9 (171), RLHA 2 (43), GOEA 84 (4321) TOTAL 109 (6767)