May 9 [Day 72] (Valley View site) (Bill Wilson) The temperature reached a high of 10C from a low of -1C, ground winds were very variable and generally light and ridge winds were also mainly light. Cloud cover was 30-80% cumulus until noon after which it was 90-100% stratus and cumulus as periods of rain and hail developed in mid afternoon with the ridges partially obscured, and rain again developed after 1915 as a thunderstorm moved in from the WNW. It was another day of good raptor movement for May, with the first of 37 migrants, a juvenile Golden Eagle, moving at 0855, and with the exception of a period of rain from 1300 to 1440 there was steady movement throughout until the last juvenile Golden Eagle was logged at 1850. Maximum movement was 9 birds from 1100-1200 and again from 1800 to 1900. The 5 Northern Harriers (all adults: 1 male and 4 females) was the highest daily count so far, the 10 Golden Eagles comprised 3 subadults, 5 juveniles and 2 birds of unknown age, and a light morph Rough-legged Hawk at 1246 was the first seen in May at the site. The latest record of the species on a RMERF count, however, was May 16 at Mount Lorette. A male Brown-headed Cowbird was the first for the season and 7 days earlier than last year’s first occurrence, and a female Spruce Grouse was the first recorded on a spring count here. 13.33 hours (809.4) OSPR 1 (17), BAEA 1 (427), NOHA 5 (26), SSHA 3 (70), COHA 3 (13), NOGO 4 (104), RTHA 6 (176), RLHA 1 (26), GOEA 10 (2674), UE 1 (2) AMKE 1 (6), UF (large) 1 (3) TOTAL 37 (3609)