October 24 [Day 57] The temperature at 0800 was 9C and rose to a high of 13C at 1400. Winds were from the west all day gusting 50-60 km/h in the morning but became very strong in the afternoon. As I was measuring the wind at 1700 a gust of around 120 km/h knocked me over and I found myself sprawled and rather bruised on a pile of rocks. Cloud cover in the morning was a useful 30-60% cover of altostratus, cumulus and cirrus which diminished to 10-20% in the early afternoon making observation difficult, before clouding over again from the west in the late afternoon. Raptor movement didn’t start until 0925 but then increased steadily with 15 birds passing between 1000 and 1100. Movement was steady until 1300 then rapidly decreased as the winds increased in velocity with the last Golden Eagle moving high to the south at 1655. The Golden Eagle counted at 1057 was the 4400th of the season equaling last fall’s final count for the species. In the morning before the winds picked up there was a varied passerine movement including 132 Bohemian Waxwings, 5 Purple Finches, 1 Cassin’s Finch, 12 Common Redpolls and 7 Pine Siskins, and a Northern Pygmy-Owl perched briefly at the site. At 1450 a Long-tailed Weasel in its white winter pelage hunted just north of the site, conspicuous against the now snow-free ridge. 11 hours (642.01) BAEA 1 (255), SSHA 2 (1197), COHA 1 (190), NOGO 2 (96), GOEA 53 (4434) TOTAL 59 (6661)