Date: 09/17/2007

Number: 1000

My first migration sighting!!!! In the park outside of the Japanese Garden on the UI campus. Butterflies were roosting on the shady side of trees all over the park. Met a woman and her child there and she said she was an entomologist from Turkey and she called them "King" butterflies. I almost corrected her until I realized that of course that would be a proper name/translation for them. Went at 13:30 and again at 18:00 today (9/18/07). Seemed to be more in the afternoon, and another lady said there were even more there the previous day(9/17/07). It was very cool here this last weekend (37 F) and not it is back in the upper 80s. It was an amazing site.

Editor's Note: This observer did not specify the number of monarchs present, although the roost are appears to have been large. We are estimating a minimum of 1,000 since she said they were "trees all over the park." We are marking this record as a JN staff estimate.

Urbana, IL

Latitude: 40.1 Longitude: -88.2

Observed by: pat
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