September 21 [Day 2] (Joel Duncan, assisted by Cliff Hansen) The temperature low was 0.5C at 0900, but rapidly rose to 24C at 1500 and was still 20C at 1930. Ground winds were calm to 1000 and then N-NE light occasionally gusting to 15 km/h for the rest of the day. It was cloudless all day with smoke haze developing after 1400. Only 3 raptors were recorded: an adult Cooper's Hawk at 1118, an adult light morph calurus Red-tailed Hawk at 1222 and the day's only Golden Eagle (an unaged bird) at 1507. By way of compensation there was a good variety of non-raptor species including 1 female Belted Kingfisher, 1 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker, 3 Blue Jays, 1 Boreal Chickadee, 6 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet, 50 American Robins, 15 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 2 Song Sparrows, 7 White-throated Sparrows (a species that is uncommon at the site, in two flocks of 4 and 3), 2 Dark-eyed Juncos, 4 White-winged and 5 Red Crossbills, and 2 Pine Siskins.

12 hours (24.08) COHA 1 (1), RTHA 1 (1), GOEA 1 (12) TOTAL 3 (15)