Date: 10/26/2007

Number: 1

Imagine a river of American Snouts that are Monarch sized, crossing the causeway, about two hundred yards wide. Happened at 2:30 this afternoon near the Port Lavaca end of the Lavaca Bay Causeway. Tens of Thousands (think I spelled that right, 10's of 1000's) of monarchs, looked like those clouds of "black birds" that come by in winter. Hundreds if not thousands of dead monarchs being whipped up by the traffic from the surface of the causeway deck.

I had just finished a count at 2:15 and the avg for an hour was just under 4000 for an hour. The trip over the causeway before that I counted 410 monarchs.

Wind was calm from NNW, but is 5 from NNE now, that may bring things to an end tomorrow afternoon if we have an east wind I hear there is another front about Monday or Tuesday.
What a day, and I still get to go back ...

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

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