March 29 [Day 41] (Valley View site) The temperature ranged from 1C to 6C and cloud cover was 100% low overcast to slightly higher stratocumulus all day, with persistent precipitation that ranged from light rain showers to heavy wet snow. The ridges were shrouded in snow for most of the day but cleared between noon and 1430 during which time the ridge winds became W strong and ground winds gusted to 30 km/h. The only raptor seen, however, was a resident Golden Eagle that made a brief cameo appearance over the Livingstone Range at 1336, and I gave up on the day at 1630. Around 1800 the ridge again completely cleared and I started to return to the site, but with 5 minutes later everything was obscured again so I returned home. 9.33 hours (472.2) No migrant raptors (2219)

Mount Lorette [Day 29] (Cliff Hansen to 1330, then Alan Hingston) The temperature reached 4C from a low of 0C, ridge winds were strong W all day and cloud cover was 100% stratus all day with the ridges only occasionally clearing. An adult male Northern Harrier hunting near the site around 1000 was the first for the season, and the only Golden Eagle movement was 5 birds (4a,1u) that moved between 1759 and 1843 before another storm moving from the north at 1850 brought the day’s proceedings to a close. 11.25 hours (325.8) NOHA 1 (1), GOEA 5 (1017) TOTAL 6 (1120)