Date: 01/06/2007

Number: 1

During a public outdoor nature trip with 13 participants to the Eastern Shore NWR near Cape Charles, VA, Virginia Living Museum staff members Dan Summers saw a monarch butterfly fly from north to south as he was in the vicinity of the old Fort John Custis military installation site. This site faces the marsh that faces the Atlantic ocean side near the tip of the Delmarva peninsula. Weather was mostly sunny, upper 60s to low 70s, calm winds or a slight breeze. A few minutes earlier and about 150 yards away the other VLM staff member Jim Drummond saw a monarch flying northward but in general looking for flowers. Both staff think it may have been the same butterfly. The only flowers seen in bloom were some composites, possible fleabanes or asters, when the group was on Fishermans Island earlier in the day. It has been warm enough for buttercups, dandelions and daffodils to bloom in Williamsburg & Newport News this first week of January due to the mild winter. A front moves in Monday

Cape Charles, VA

Latitude: 37.3 Longitude: -76

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