Date: 09/27/2002

Number: 1

I was waiting on the parking lot for Altus to shut down the computer lab and had a monarch fly by from NNE to SSW at about six feet. Wind was light out of west (after what seems like weeks of north winds from first Fay and then Isidore), clear, 66 to 91 dF. On the bay the wind was light out of the east, tides are almost back to normal. We couldn't confirm but thought we saw a monarch among the Queens and Gulf Fritillaries (too many orange butterflies!) moving N to S towards the bay. Ten to twenty thousand hawks are moving over us daily but the sky has been so clear and so high that we really can't see up into it ... we need some cumulous clouds. It seems that every September something in the Gulf combines with cold front number one to start the monarchs for us. Goldenrod will be in full bloom next week, both varieties of wild lantana are full of blooms, viridis and asperula have blooms again, ST flycatchers migrating in numbers. Hope all those RT hummers that jumped off for the

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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