November 30 [Day 94] It was a cool start to the day with -22C at 0730 but the wind was less than 5 km/h all day and the temperature rose to -7C by 1400 under mainly cloudless skies: a sparkling late November day. It was as well it was pleasant as there was no sign of raptor movement all morning and I was beginning to think that it might be appropriate to finish the count today when at 1229 a Bald Eagle moved south along the ridge quickly followed by four others before the hour was out. The next two hours yielded 14 and 9 migrants respectively and when the last Golden Eagle went south at 1610 I had counted a total of 36 migrants of 4 species, the highest combined species count at the site since November 11. The Bald Eagle seen at 1231 was the 607th of the season equaling the second highest ever RMERF count for the species (Plateau Mountain, 1997) and the one at 1526 surpassed our previous highest ever count of 628 at Mount Lorette in 2000. An American Robin perched close by at 1430 was a pleasant surprise for the time of year. In contrast to last year’s November count when the weather only allowed 23 count days before I was driven from the field by a blizzard on the 29th, this year we counted every day during the month and only 3 days were significantly curtailed because of weather. The 30 days and 280 hours spent in the field are 30.4% and 32% higher than last November respectively, but despite this the 703 migrants counted is 25.3% lower than last year mainly because the total of 337 Golden Eagles is 48.5% lower than last year’s record November count of 654. By contrast the 282 Bald Eagles (+28.8%), 34 Northern Goshawks (+17.2%), 28 Rough-legged Hawks (+21.7%) and 7 Gyrfalcons (+75%) are all higher than last year, and Northern Harrier (1), Cooper’s Hawk (1) and Red-tailed Hawk (5) were recorded in November for the first time at the site this year. 9.25 hours (1001.2) BAEA 26 (631), NOGO 1 (164), RLHA 2 (79), GOEA 7 (5442) TOTAL 36 (8211)