October 30 [Day 63] It was a day almost devoid of cloud and similarly devoid of raptors for the first time this month. Winds were again westerly all day, light in the morning and moderate in the afternoon with gusts not exceeding 37 km/h, and the temperature high was 1.4C from a low of -4C. Only 8 raptors moved all day under what appeared to be ideal conditions so it is probable that conditions were not so favourable to the north. By comparison there was a large finch movement, especially in the morning, involving 6 Purple Finches, 102 Grey-crowned Rosy Finches, 24 Red Crossbills and 1,082 Common Redpolls which moved south in flocks of up to 130 birds. In the morning I watched a female Red Crossbill feeding a juvenile bird while perched atop a Douglas Fir suggesting that the juvenile was only recently fledged. A Mountain Bluebird at the site early in the morning was the latest there by 14 days, and the Northern Pygmy-Owl was also present in the morning. A Least Chipmunk approached within a few centimetres of my boot while foraging for food around midday: they seem to coexist with Yellow Pine Chipmunks at the site and it is not obvious what the ecological separation of the two species is. 11.25 hours (710.42) SSHA 2 (1217), NOGO 1 (127), GOEA 5 (5038) TOTAL 8 (7423)