May 12 [Day 77] There was 10 cm of fresh snow on the ridge but everything was clear until 0910 when snow began which persisted with a few breaks until 1735 adding another 4.5 cm. Winds were N-NE gusting up to 25 km/h until 1800 when they shifted to SW-WSW followed by a general clearing. To add to the fun there were occasional thunder showers and at 1435 a simultaneous lightening flash and thunder clap occurred right overhead in a snow pellet white-out which left me tingling for a few minutes. Through all this the temperature only ranged from 0C to 2C all day: it must be spring! There were only two relatively clear periods and in the first a juvenile dark morph Harlan’s Red-tailed Hawk flew by at 0954 and in the second an Osprey went north at 1350. During this second clear period 3 resident adult Golden Eagles flew together to the south. As might be expected songbirds were not much in evidence but 4 Brewer’s Blackbirds flew high over the ridge towards the west at 0836 and the season’s first two Cedar Waxwings were perched west of the ridge at 1340. 12.67 hours (889.3) OSPR 1 (19), RTHA 1 (214) TOTAL 2 (4081)