March 30 [Day 26] (Terry Waters, and Jim Davis after 1400 at Lusk Creek) The temperature high was 7C at 1400 and it was 2C both at the beginning and end of the day. Ground winds were mainly SW 10-20 gusting 30 km/h while ridge winds were strong SW-SSW gusting to 140 km/h in the morning but moderating to 50-85 km/h in the afternoon. Cloud cover was 100% altostratus all day giving very hazy sunshine, and flurries in the afternoon. The W ridges were obscured all day and the E ridges clouded over after 1600. Only 6 birds were seen at the Hay Meadow site, between 0910 and 1250: 2 Bald Eagles, 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk, 1 Northern Goshawk and 2 Golden Eagles. At 1400 Terry left the Hay Meadow as the Fisher Range became obscured and headed for the Lusk Creek site where the First Foothills ridge was clear. Jim Davis had been observing there since 1400 and subsequently a total of 17 migrant Golden Eagles were observed, the last moving at 1725. The combined flight of 23 migrants at the two sites was 2 Bald Eagles (1a, 1j), 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk of undetermined age, 1 adult Northern Goshawk and 19 Golden Eagles (17a, 1sa, 1u). 11 hours (291.67) BAEA 2 (122), SSHA 1 (2), NOGO 1 (9), GOEA 19 (2525) TOTAL 23 (2688)

Yesterday the adult female Golden Eagle “Elaine”was close to 142^o W and 64^oN which is in eastern Alaska about 50 km west of the Yukon-Alaska border near the settlement of Chicken.