September 9 [Day 16] It was another calm, cool (2C) cloudless start to the day with fresh snow on the peaks of the Livingstone and High Rock Ranges. Winds settled from the west after noon generally 20-30 occasionally gusting 37 km/h, but cloud cover remained thin at best all day and despite the sunshine the temperature only reached 12C. Because of the morning calm, the first raptor was not seen until 1119 and apart from the occasional Sharp-shinned Hawk movement was slow until 1325 to1417 when there was a burst of birds including 5 migrant Golden Eagles, the highest total so far this season. Unfortunately the momentum was not sustained and the balance of the day only saw the passage of 1 or 2 migrants an hour. The most entertaining migrant of the day was a juvenile Northern Goshawk that put up a perched flock of around 30 American Robins leaving them behind like a turbulent wake: luckily for them it was not hunting. Non-raptor movement was fairly strong, notably Red-breasted Nuthatches (32) and Ruby-crowned Kinglets (38) and American Robins (64). More northerly forms are now beginning to move through with the first cismontanus “Slate-coloured” Junco today, pure “Yellow-shafted” Flickers and intergrade oriantha/gambelii White-crowned Sparrows. The bird of the day, however, was one of the last seen as we were descending. Just south of the site Keith noticed a very small bird that I just had enough time to identify before it melted away into the fescue grasses. It was Grasshopper Sparrow, the first for the site and probably a new species for the Crowsnest Pass area. 11.67 hours (173.51) NOHA 1(27), SSHA 17 (132), COHA 1 (51), UA 3 (17), RTHA 2 (61), GOEA 5 (19), AMKE 1 (23) TOTAL 32 (366)