Date: 10/09/2005

Number: 1

Yesterday, October 9, had a huge movement of Monarch butterflies through Junction and Kimble County. I first started seeing them around 8:30 a.m.
with constant numbers until noon. Most of the butterflies were not visible to the naked eye (except early a.m.) but when I used my 8.5x42 binoculars the numbers up high were totally unbelievable, had to be in 6 figures 100,000+ but possibly in the millions. I looked across the county from east of IH10 westward to the South Llano River State Park and the numbers were the same everywhere. At times, through my binoculars I know I was observing 50-80 butterflies every place I looked up into that beautiful blue sky. It was awesome and I have never seen anything like that with the Monarch migration.

Courtesy of Mike Quinn, Texas Monarch Watch

Junction, TX

Latitude: 30.4 Longitude: -99.6

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