9/7 3-6 PM Top of Table Mt. -

Lots of Pipits but no large staged flocks
Family of 7 Ptarmigan
3 Red-tailed Hawks
1 Swainson's Hawk
3 Sharp-shinned

9/8 10:30 AM -2 PM Top of Hannegan Peak -

another family of 6 Ptarmigan
again lots of individual Pipits flying around but no large flocks
1 Lapland Longspur
4 Pine Grosbeaks
disappointingly only raptors seen were 2 Kestrels

also on the way up Hannegan a couple non-sooty (slate?) Fox
Sparrows along with tons of Juncos apparently staging, and dozens
of a mid-size butterfly along the trail with mostly blackish wings with
yellow trailing edge (Mourning Cloaks?)

p-tame-igan shots mixed from both places -

http://www.harborside.com/~philliplc/ptarmigan001.jpg
http://www.harborside.com/~philliplc/ptarmigan002.jpg
http://www.harborside.com/~philliplc/ptarmigan003.jpg
http://www.harborside.com/~philliplc/ptarmigan004.jpg
http://www.harborside.com/~philliplc/ptarmigan005.jpg
http://www.harborside.com/~philliplc/ptarmigan006.jpg

Cheers,

Phil Pickering
philliplc at harborside.com