April 8 [Day 47] A pleasant day with ground winds mainly SW not exceeding 15 km/h and ridge winds NW-W moderate all day. The temperature reached 6C from a low of -3C and until 1030 it was almost cloudless and then ranged from 5-40% cumulus until 2000 when a 70% cirrus cloud cover developed. I saw the first Golden Eagle at 0724 but the second did not appear until 0920 but subsequent movement was steady with maximum passage of 14 birds from 1800 to 1900, and the last bird of the day, a Red-tailed Hawk, went north at 1929. The total of 7 Red-tailed Hawks brings the season’s total to 84, two more than the previous spring high RMERF count at Mount Lorette in 1999. The fourth Ferruginous Hawk of the season, another adult light morph, went north at 1632, and 28 of the 42 Golden Eagles were immature birds: 14 adults, 16 subadults and 12 juveniles. If this relatively warm weather persists we may finally be able to get up on the ridge within a few days. 13.08 hours (516.7) BAEA 10 (362), SSHA 1 (5), NOGO 3 (79), RTHA 7 (84), FEHA 4 (4), GOEA 42 (2522) TOTAL 64 (3098)

Mount Lorette (George) Weather conditions were not conducive to migration and a single adult Golden Eagle moving slowly northwards was the only possible migrant of the day. 12.75 hours (429.4) GOEA 1 (1168) TOTAL 1 (1266)