March 29 [Day 25] (George Halmazna, Cliff Hansen after 1800) The temperature reached a high of 5C at 1300 and 1400 from a morning low of -0.5C, ground winds were SW 5-10 gusting 20 km/h all day while ridge winds were strong SW-SSW gusting to 85 km/h in mid afternoon. Cloud cover was initially 40% cumulus and stratus reaching 100% at 1100, diminishing to 20% cumulus after 1500, and the ridges remained clear all day. There was yet another strong movement of Golden Eagles with 318 birds (279a, 2sa, 20j and 17u) moving between 0737 and 1950. This was the second highest count of the season and the peak movement of the species has now yielded 1827 birds in the last 8 days and only 3 counts in the last 12 days have fallen below 100 birds. Ten Bald Eagles (9a, 1j) completed the count which peaked early between 0737 and 0800 with the passage of 56 birds (2 Bald and 54 Golden Eagles) and the passage rate remained high all day with most of the birds gliding very high to the NW between the centre of the valley and the Fisher Range. A Townsend's Solitaire and a Brown Creeper were firsts for the season, and the warm weather produced the first sighting of a wolf spider and a hatch of stoneflies. 13.5 hours (280.67) BAEA 10 (120), GOEA 318 (2516) TOTAL 328 (2665)