News
from Northern Mexico
Monarcas
en el noreste de mexico
The migration surged southward during the past week. Monarchs
are now crossing the skies of the Mexican states of Coahuila,
Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, according to reports collected
by Senora Rocio Trevino. Monarchs blew across the border
in huge numbers last Friday, October 18th and had traveled
as far south as Galeana, Nuevo Leon where these snapshots
were taken. That southernmost report is only 400 miles from
the overwintering sites. Watch the animated
map of monarch roosts to see how far the migration advanced
in a single week. Do you think they'll reach the overwintering
sites by their traditional date of Nov. 1st, in time for
the Day of the Dead?
- Rocio
Treviño reports from Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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News
from the Overwintering Sites Expecting
the First Monarchs Any Minute!
 "We
think we should see the first Monarchs arriving any minute
now," wrote Estela Romero on Thursday, October 25th.
"The weather is now deep, blue sky— icy in the
mornings and evenings — but very, very sunny during
the day. I just met Germán Median here at the internet
café and he will go today once more to Ël Cerrito
and one or two more points in Angangueo where the monarchs
usually arrive first."
Also
this week, students describe why Mondays are so special
in their small mountain town.
- Estela
Romero and students report from Angangueo, Michoacan,
Mexico. >>
News
from Texas A
Cloud Moving Down the Coastal Flyway--and Offshore!
A massive migration is now moving along the Texas
Gulf Coast. A cloud of monarchs stretches at least 150 miles
from Galveston to Corpus Christi, Texas. People saw monarchs
"dropping out of the sky" and a migration that
"continued all day long." Migrating monarchs were
also seen over the Gulf of Mexico according to
a witness on an offshore oil platform 120 miles from the
coast.
"The
coastal flyway had its first players show up today,"
wrote Harlen Aschen from the mid-coast on Tuesday, Oct.
23. By Thursday night, reports were popping up on the map
with comments like this from Galveston: "I witnessed
the most incredible sight this morning and it has continued
all day long."
Texas
Central Flyway (Near Mexican Border): An Unusual Year?
The first surge across the southwestern section
of the Central Flyway was finally noted on October 18th.
Carol
Cullar, Director of Rio Bravo Nature Center, has been chasing
monarchs in the region, hoping to catch the first wave as
the migration leaves Texas. See what you can learn from
her observations this year— and what she learned herself:
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Take
a look!
October 18, 2007
Monarchs
don't stop at the Mexican border the way U.S. weather maps
do. Which way do you think the wind was blowing in northern
Mexico when this roost was found in Galeana,
Nuevo Leon?
A
cloud of monarchs along the Texas Gulf Coast for 150 miles...
Harlen
and Altus Aschen
...and
120 miles offshore!
Monarchs
were seen at dusk on Thursday from an offshore oil platform
in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dave
Patton
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