Date: 11/03/2005

Number: 1

I was treated to a special show of monarchs migrating across Lavaca Bay this morning. The bay was calm with just a light ripple every few minutes when there was a touch of breeze out of the southwest. Somewhere between 10:30 and 11:00, I stopped my counting of monarchs that were nectaring on goldenrod and sunflowers because I had become fascinated with the number of monarchs that were flying just off the west side of the peninsula to the Lavaca Bay Causeway and over the bay. Their flight was parallel to it and the causeway and they proceeded southwest across the bay. They were about three feet above the surface of the bay, seldom more than six feet, three to five in sight most of the time for the hour I watched from the shell shoreline where the causeway begins. I would guess four to five hundred monarchs passed within 200 yards to the west of me in that one hour. Ps. My count of those nectaring had been 111.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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