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10/25/05 Port Lavaca, TX (28 N, -96W)
“The migration along the Coastal Flyway here at the mid-coast of Texas has suddenly gotten hot. This started with the first of two fronts last Friday, Oct. 21st. The best four-minute count of those flying across the causeway has been forty-six.”

10/18/05 Cape May, New Jersey
“A late and large wave of monarchs has moved through Cape May, New Jersey, over the last week,” reports Dick Walton from the Monarch Monitoring Project. “Michael O'Brien tallied 445 monarchs on one of three daily census runs on 18 October.” (A census run takes about 20-minutes.)

[No other quantifiable reports were submitted this week.]