Date: 09/25/2006

Number: 1

Monday, Sept 25 at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island, Virginia:

Migrants were on the move for most of today during NW winds at 10 mph. Monarchs averaged about 140 per hour between 9am - 3pm. Other migratory insects seen in huge numbers were common buckeyes, green darners, black saddlebags and wandering glider dragonflies. Tree swallows numbered in the thousands and there was a steady flight of peregrines, merlins, bald eagles and osprey. Quite a day!

Monarch numbers are posted daily on the Chincoteague Monarch Monitoring Project website.

Denise Gibbs

Chincoteague Monarch Monitoring Project

Assateague Island, VA

Latitude: 39.2 Longitude: -77.3

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