October 20 [Day 55] The wind was W all day initially 25-30 gusting 35 km/h and increasing throughout the day gusting to 70 km/h by 1900, but thankfully the forecast winds of 100km/h did not materialise. The temperature was 4C at 0800 and rose to 6C by 1500 but quickly dropped to 1C as a series of squalls moved from the W throughout the afternoon bringing first rain showers, then sleet and finally snow flurries as the temperature dropped. Cloud cover ranged from 70-100% mainly cumulus and stratocumulus and the southern end of the Livingstone Range was periodically obscured throughout the afternoon. As I had expected the morning raptor movement was good with the first Golden Eagles moving at 0805 and by noon I had counted 101 raptors of which 87 were Golden Eagles. The afternoon movement, however, was frequently interrupted by periodic squalls although birds often moved in good numbers as soon as the weather cleared. The 66th Golden Eagle of the day at 1055 was the 4000th of the season, and 2 Bald Eagles at 0934 brought the season’s total to 100, although their main movement is still to come. An adult Peregrine Falcon at 1121 was the 32nd of the season and equals 2007 as the latest record for the site. The only Red-tailed Hawk was a juvenile dark morph “Harlan’s” at 1446 (the 42nd of the season), and the last bird of the day was again a Rough-legged Hawk at 1813. Passerine movement was thin but included 2 Townsend’s Solitaires, the first seen at the site since October 6, 10 Bohemian Waxwings, and 74 Grey-crowned Rosy-Finches. At Mount Lorette George Halmazna tallied 120 Golden Eagles out of a total of 135 migrant raptors that also included 7 Bald Eagles, 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk, 1 Cooper’s Hawk, 5 Rough-legged Hawks and a Merlin. Rain brought an early end to the day there. 11.5 hours (633.84) BAEA 5 (102), SSHA 6 (1396), COHA 1 (230), NOGO 4 (156), RTHA 1 (195), RLHA 1 (40), GOEA 145 (4080), PEFA 1 (32), PRFA 2 (15), UF 1 (2) TOTAL 167 (6462)