Date: 09/01/2003

Number: 1

Went out to check meadow & roost later - 8:15 am, 58 degrees, with light rain during the night. This morning started like Sunday, with sun struggling with an overcast sky. North, a wide, shallow bay of robin's egg blue glowed at the trailing edge of the front stalled above us. Only a single Monarch nectared on meadow flowers. In the catalpa grove, 73 Monarchs still slumbered.
This afternoon at 3 pm, 2 Monarchs were nectaring & 1 flying around. As light rain began to spatter, the trees came alive with orange wings of incoming Monarchs. There were 18 on the roost which flickered with wing flashed warnings, as those airborne circled to land. Another butterfly question answered! That's what butterflies do on rainy days! New arrivals or last night's campers? Did gloomy weather convince them to linger?Without tagging them I can't be sure & it's 15' to the roost.

Marne, MI

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -85.8

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