Date: 09/15/2006
Number: 1
"It's difficult to adequately describe the most impressive flight of Monarch Butterfly I and the observers have ever witnessed. When I arrived at 4:15 EST, driving up to the parking area, I noted quite a fiew low-flying Monarchs. At top of the parking area they we litterly swelling up and over the hillside. When I scanned the sky, it was filled. As far as one could see, Monarch Butterflies. Not a single one here and one there, but
clusters filled the sky, quickly moving through by the brisk NW winds, a
continuous flow. The (hawk) counters noted this incredible flight had been nonstop all afternoon. Just in the first hour I was there literally thousands had passed through. This is not an exaggeration but a conservative estimate!
Forwarded by Dr. Lincoln Brower
When a northwest wind hits the ridges of the Appalachian Mountains the air lifts upward. Monarchs can fly effortlessly along the ridges, toward the southwest.
Waynesboro, VA
Latitude: 38 Longitude: -78.9
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