March 10 [Day 19] For most of the day thick altostratus cloud in the form of a Chinook Arch parked above the Livingstone Range providing an excellent backdrop against which to view migrants. The warm strong westerly winds raised the temperature to a season-high 11C from a low of 2C. The first Golden Eagle of the day was the earliest seen yet at 0839 (0739 MST) and the last was the latest yet at 1939, exactly 11 hours later. Movement was steady all day, the rate gradually increasing to a maximum passage of 22 birds from 1700 to 1800. The totals of 103 Golden Eagles and 5 Northern Goshawks are both season-highs. The resident pair perched and probably copulated on the Bluff Mountain ridge at 1525 and the female visited the nest at 1613 and stayed 72 seconds: the longest time yet observed. The morning saw the strongest passerine movement to date, including 7 American Robins (the first of the season), 2 Bohemian Waxwings, 70 Grey-crowned Rosy-Finches, 70 Red Crossbills (also the first) and 57 Pine Siskins. An unidentified swan flying high to the south at 1031 was a first for the site. 11.83 hours (197.7) BAEA 15 (142), NOGO 5 (14), GOEA 103 (365) TOTAL 123 (529)

Mount Lorette (Joel) The last migrant of the day was an unidentified eagle moving almost in the dark at 1950. 10.17 hours (110.4) BAEA 3 (14), GOEA 40 (110), UE 1 (1) TOTAL 44 (126)