Counting Monarchs
When you watch migrating monarchs, find ways to quantify (count or measure) what you're seeing. For example, tell us how many monarchs you count per minute — or how your observation compares to what you saw yesterday, last week, or last year.
"One hundred monarchs were feeding on a large planting of flowering Joe Pye Weed in the town garden. (The observation time was 1 hour.) This was the largest group we have observed in three years."
Scott Miller Leland, Michigan September 8, 2014
![Monarch Butterfly Nectaring on Joe Pye Weed](//sightings.journeynorth.org/jnorth/images/userfiles2014/09/1410219232.full.jpg) |