Date: 10/29/2001

Number: 1

October 29


Today is October 29 and even though it is a bit cloudy the sky is full wiht butterflies, there are so many!!!! Ww had seen them around school few days ago, but right now it is just a big cloud of monarch butterflies. All the children are so excited! It is such a beautiful sight. The school is very close to the mountains and next week we are planning a field trip to La Estanzuela Park, it is a monarch sanctuary, and they eager to see them.

October 15

Hello! This last weekend my students from Colegio Ingles reported many different sightings around the city area. Even the newspaper and the local news are talking about them, They are here!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Nov. 5 we are going on a field trip to our Chipinque Mountain Park to learn more about the Monarch butterflies and they will even teach us how to tag them!

These are some of the sightings by my enthusiastic students.

• At school, very close to the Sierra Madre Mountains tens per minute.
  
• Los Cavazos ranch about 40 every ten minutes.
  
• Del Valle neighborhood in San Pedro 25 in 30 minutes, 50 per hour.
  
• Villa Chipinque neighborhood about 15 per minute.
  
• Alpino Chipinque Club about 20.
  
• A Ranch in Allende Nuevo Leon about 30 per five minutes.
  
• Las Torres Carrefour area 100 per minute.
  
• Cadereyta Nuevo Leon, 25 per minute.
  
• Antiguo San Agustin, 40 per minute.
  
• By the Cerro de la Silla Mountain, 15 per minute.
  

Monterrey, NL

Latitude: 25.7 Longitude: -100.3

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