August 29 [Day 5] Winds were moderate to strong all day, gusting up to 40km/h from the WNW, W and late in the day from the WSW. Despite a starting temperature of 9.5C thick altostratus cloud to the east combined with the wind made it feel rather cool. The clouds, however, progressively dissipated producing almost cloudless skies after 1400 with the temperature rising to 21C. The weather allowed a reasonably complete day of observation for the first time this season but raptor movement was again sparse with the cloudless skies of the afternoon not helping matters. The first Broad-winged Hawk of the season came through at 1659 and was the first seen at the site in August. Passerine movement continues to build contributing to the season high 294 individuals of 32 species. There was steady southward movement of small songbirds for most of the day including 30 Red-breasted Nuthatches, 42 Golden-crowned Kinglets, 19 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 17 Mountain Bluebirds and 60 Yellow-rumped Warblers. New species for the site were a singing Cassin’s Vireo, a White-throated Sparrow and at 1450, a Grey-cheeked Thrush, a species which was hitherto unrecorded in the Pass area. The bird flew low into a krumholz Douglas Fir at the site and, as is the habit of the species, immediately disappeared! Denise and I “surrounded” the tree and finally persuaded it to stick its head out for a couple of seconds: long enough to make the identification. Other firsts for the season were singles of American Pipit, Western Wood-Pewee and Barn Swallow. The first five days of the count have now yielded 45 bird species. In addition to the birds, I watched a family of Black Bears at the base of the ridge feed for about 1.5 hours. The sow was a brown animal (looking at first glance rather like a Grizzly), while one of her cubs was blond-cinnamon and the other was black! At 1434 an Anise Swallowtail butterfly landed on an adjacent spruce branch producing possibly the latest records of the species on the wing in the Province. Not a bad day…pity about the raptors! 11.75 hours (46.67) NOHA 1 (3), SSHA 3 (8), BWHA 1 (1), RTHA 4 (15), GOEA 1 (3), AMKE 2 (4) TOTAL 12 (49)