Date: 06/08/2007

Number: 1

Despite the cool spring, we've had a fairly large wave (of monarchs)moving through
the area since Friday (6/8). On
Friday alone I saw at least 10 in different areas, which is plenty for this area. I'll keep you posted
re: egg laying etc.

I'll also go back through my records to let you know
when I saw my first one.

Contributed by Don Davis. Don's note: Riding Mountain, (50° 53' 00" N - 100° 15' 00" )covering 2973 square kilometres (1145 sq. miles) of rolling hills and valleys, stretches eastward from a dramatic rise of land known as Manitoba Escarpment. This park includes expanses of boreal (northern) forest, a strip of eastern deciduous forest along the foot of the escarpment, huge meadows of rough fescue grasslands in its west end, and significant tracts of marsh and river-bottom wetland.
This area of wilderness surrounded by agriculture (flat prairie) is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bear, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd.

Riding Mountain National Park, MB

Latitude: 50.9 Longitude: -100.3

Observed by: Donald A.
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