August 30 [Day 6] The first 1.5 hours on the ridge saw a rare combination of cloudless sky, winds less than 2 km/h and 16C: I thought I had to be dreaming! It didn’t last and after 0900 the sky rapidly clouded over with high-wind cloud types developing as the wind gradually increased from the W reaching 50 km/h by mid afternoon and raising the temperature to 22C. The first raptors seen were the first Merlin of the year and two male American Kestrels hunting migrating songbirds near the site. Migration was subsequently slow but steady over most of the day with the highlights being a juvenile light morph Ferruginous Hawk, a juvenile light Broad-winged Hawk and, late in the day, a probable migrant Prairie Falcon being mobbed by a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk. The resident Golden Eagle family was conspicuous in the afternoon, as was a resident pair of Red-tailed Hawks, with the males of both species sporadically engaging in vigorous sky-dancing displays. The early part of the morning again saw the ridge alive with migrating passerines with the total bird species count today reaching 37. Three new species were added to the site list: Warbling Vireo, House Wren and, perhaps more surprisingly for 1900 m, a Grey Catbird. New birds for the season were Red-naped Sapsucker, Savannah Sparrow and the aforementioned Ferruginous Hawk. A male “Pink-sided” Junco (J.h.mearnsi) was also a season first. The most common migrants were Yellow-rumped Warbler (50), Ruby-crowned Kinglet (22) and American Robin (34): it was the first significant movement for the last species at the site. At 1000 the passerine movement suddenly stopped and songbirds were almost non-existent for the rest of the day. 11.5 hours (58.17) OSPR 1 (2), BAEA 1 (4), SSHA 5 (13), COHA 2 (11), UA 1 (1), BWHA 1 (2), RTHA 2 (17), FEHA 1 (1), AMKE 3 (7), MERL 2 (2), PRFA 1 (1) TOTAL 20 (69)