October 6 [Day 17] (Terry Waters) It was a delightful day with the temperature reaching 22C at 1600 from a low of -1C, with light ground and ridge winds peaking at 10 km/h and cloud maximum cloud cover was 5% in the morning and cloudless thereafter. Apart from an unaged Golden Eagle seen at 0950, steady raptor movement did not get under way until around 1130, with most Golden Eagles rising on thermals above the northern end of the Fisher Range before moving slowly to the southeast along the ridge. Of the day’s total of 151 raptors, 143 were Golden Eagles (7a, 21sa, 37j, 4u) that peaked at 33 birds moving between 1700 and 1800 that including a single kettle of 8 birds. The last bird was seen at the relatively early time of 1756 and a couple of minutes later a small single-engine monoplane, that had been flying low up and down the valley for much of the afternoon, flew very low to the east just above the north Fisher Range ridge where the eagles had been moving. The passage of the aircraft and the ceasing of the eagle movement could well be related! Earlier in the day, at 1222, what was probably a tourist helicopter passed very close to a Golden Eagle moving over Mount Lorette and caused the bird to make an abrupt change of course with it moving south over Olympic Summit instead of crossing the Kananaskis Valley to the Fisher Range as all the other birds over Lorette did that day. We shall follow up on both incidents as such encounters endanger both the birds and the occupants of the aircraft. Other raptor movement was sparse comprising single Bald Eagle (j), Sharp-shinned Hawk (u), Cooper’s Hawk (u), Northern Goshawk (j), unknown small Accipiter, 2 Red-tailed Hawks: 1 adult light calurus and 1 of unknown race, age and morph, and 1 Rough-legged Hawk. There were very few passerine migrants and despite the beautiful weather and the spectacular Golden Eagle movement of the previous day there were no visitors to the site. 11.75 hours (190.17) BAEA 1 (66), SSHA 1 (44), COHA 1 (9), NOGO 1 (11), RTHA 2 (31), RLHA 1 (5), GOEA 143 (942), UE 1 (6) TOTAL 151 (1145)