August 26 [Day 2] It was a beautiful morning with winds below 10 km/h up to 1130, after which they increased from the west with maximum gusts of 60 km/h in the afternoon. The temperature ranged from 11C to 18C, and cloud cover was a mixture of 40-100% altostratus, altocumulus, cirrus and lenticular providing mainly hazy sunshine all day and an excellent observing backdrop. In contrast to yesterday’s disappointing start to the season, today provided the earliest ever double-figure combined species daily count at the site with 11 migrant raptors of 5 species moving between 1222 and 1845. Most surprising was an early adult dark morph Harlan’s Red-tailed Hawk at 1345 with the other two Red-tails being juvenile light morph calurus. The day’s last two birds were a dark morph Swainson’s Hawk at 1836 and an unaged Peregrine Falcon that glided south at 1845. The resident pair of Golden Eagles appeared after 1800 with the male displaying, but so far there has been no sign of a juvenile bird. Again in contrast to yesterday, the calm conditions in the morning provided a good variety of songbirds including 1 Dusky Flycatcher, 1 Cassin’s Vireo, 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 8 Mountain Bluebirds, 3 Townsend’s Solitaires, 14 American Robins, 1 Orange-crowned Warbler, 12 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 6 Townsend’s Warblers, 1 Western Tanager, 1 Clay-coloured Sparrow, 1 Brewer’s Sparrow, 2 White-crowned Sparrows, 7 Oregon Juncos and 2 American Goldfinches. The total bird species count of 32 compares to just 15 yesterday. Butterflies were also on the wing including fairly common Northwestern Fritillaries and Dark Wood Nymphs, and a couple of Smintheus Parnassians. 12.5 hours (25) SSHA 4 (5), SWHA 1 (1), RTHA 3 (3), AMKE 2 (2), PEFA 1 (1) TOTAL 11 (12)