Date: 09/19/2006

Number: 1

Sept. 19, Harvey's Knob, VA
On the Blue Ridge Parkway at Harvey's Knob, the Hawk Migration Association reported:

"Monarch butterflies were moving in large numbers today and our watchers made a very conservative count of 673."

They counted 355 monarchs the day before (9/18) but assumed they probably missed quite a few when they had a big push of nearly 400 broadwing hawks in one 50-minute period.

Observations forwarded by Elizabeth Hunter Hawk Migration Association

Harvey's Knob, VA

Latitude: 37.4 Longitude: -79.7

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