Date: 09/09/2003

Number: 1

Tonight about an hour before sundown I was boating near the Eastern shoreline of
Lake Michigan just south of St. Joseph, Michigan. There were hundreds of Monarch butterflies headed south. My wife and I observed them for over a half hour. They were flying I would say 75 to 200 feet up. Wind was very light out of the North and the butterflies were all headed due south.

I have lived in Michigan for over 20 years and boated on Lake Michigan the same amount of time but I have never seen this many butterflies at once ? it was fantastic.

I'm an avid nature lover and watcher. I help track the hummingbird migration
each spring, have created a butterfly garden and have our wooded city acre
lot registered as a backyard wildlife habitat.

St. Joseph, MI

Latitude: 39.5 Longitude: -94.5

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