A light NNW wind changed everything ... 12:15 ...


35 monarchs coming across the Lavaca Bay Causeway with a light tail wind ... slow and easy, six to eight feet above the warm concrete and staying between the rails this time.
East side of the peninsula a monarch about every two minutes.
West side about five times as many ... three's and five's at a time several times, really good numbers. West side, they were seldom more than 50' feet behind each other. Still found none nectaring.

I wasn't getting an exact count but trying to watch them because they were at window height of the van and doing a great deal more floating today. DID see one come by that displayed a white tag on left rear wing ... floated by about five feet away ... sun was just right.

I might have seen 150 to 200 in less than an hour, then I had to be back in town. Fantastic numbers down here, we wait a couple of years for this. The traffic zooms right on by on TX35 without seeing any but those few that actually get in their way.
The tagged one was doing well and went beautifully on across the bay towards the SW.

Back door cool front coming and this NNW wind could have been a part of it, then things are changing for Monday.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

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