September 15 [Day 21] Once again the entire day was cloudless with the wind from W to NW gusting to 45 km/h, and the temperature reaching 21C from a low of 12C. Today it was Bill Wilson (on his first visit to the site) and Keith doing a great job of finding birds which today were mainly west of the ridge when they weren’t directly overhead. Between us we found a season-high 140 migrant raptors of 10 species plus a non migrant Prairie Falcon. Season high counts were Sharp-shinned Hawk (71), Red-tailed Hawk (11, including an adult intermediate morph “Harlan’s Hawk”), Golden Eagle (24: 2 adults, 6 subadults and 16 juveniles) and Peregrine Falcon (2 adults). Birds moved steadily between 0831 and 1813 with no real gaps in the movement. Passerine movement was again fairly quiet with Red-breasted Nuthatches conspicuously scarce for the first time this month. 12.17 hours (232.85) BAEA 1 (8), NOHA 1 (39), SSHA 71 (344), COHA 15 (107), NOGO 1 (18), UA 11 (44), BWHA 1 (13), RTHA 11 (91), GOEA 24 (74), AMKE 1 (33), PEFA 2 (4), UU 1 (1) TOTAL 140 (794)