Date: 03/20/2006

Number: 1

Am seeing multiple Monarchs here at the station today (UT's bio-station in Smithville is ~60 km se of Austin). Last night's storm, as much as we needed the rain, took most of the blooms off of the pear so no group to count this year. Didn't see any here over the weekend but we weren't here much on Friday and Saturday and it was pretty dreary and dismal anyway -- it never got about 62 F here on Friday.

I did, however, see a single FLYING individual on Saturday, March 18, flying north in barely 65 F with an intermittent light drizzle, just east of Georgetown. I was somewhat amazed to nearly run it down in a head-on collision under those conditions! Tough beasts!

Courtesy of Mike Quinn, Texas Monarch Watch

Smithville, TX

Latitude: 30 Longitude: -97.1

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