April 3 [Day 31] (Joel Duncan, assisted by Cliff Hansen) The temperature was 2C at 0900, rose to a very pleasant 13C at 1400 and was still 12C at the end of the day. Ground winds were SW 5-10 km/h all day, gusting up to 23 km/h, and ridge winds were moderate to strong SSW-SW gusting 74-86 km/h. Cloud cover was cirrostratus all day, 80-100% to 1300 after which it gradually dwindled to 5% after 1700, and the mountains were clear all day. Despite these apparently excellent migration and observing conditions only one migrant raptor was seen, an adult Peregrine Falcon (the season's first) that flew to the north at 0902. Cliff was at the Lusk Creek site from 1600, and was joined there at 1730 by Joel, but no migrant raptors were seen. From the Hay Meadow site single adult resident Bald Eagle, Northern Goshawk and Golden Eagle were noted, and songbirds seen included 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet, 5 male Mountain Bluebirds, 17 American Robins, 1 Brown Creeper and the season's first Fox Sparrow. 10.5 hours (307.33) PEFA 1 (1) TOTAL 1 (893)

Oldman River Valley Commenting on the low counts at Mount Lorette Bev Garbutt writes that she is also noticing a lack of eagles in her study area near the Oldman River west of the Porcupine Hills. Presently her daily count of mainly Bald Eagles is 10-14, mainly juvenile birds, compared to an average daily count at this time of year of around 50 birds. She also notes that she has only seen about 8 Golden Eagles so far this year. This is interesting because if Golden Eagle movement was being displaced to the east by poor weather conditions in the mountains, this area is exactly where I would expect them to be seen.

The further adventures of “Elaine” Today Elaine flew about 200 km to the NW, crossed the Yukon River and is now near the Dall River at 150^o W about 30 km S of the Arctic Circle