Date: 09/15/2008

Number: 300

We live on 10 acres of farmland on Casco Bay and we have for 7 years watched the monarchs migrate across our property. Today, 15th of September, 2008, my 7 year old daughters and I sighted hundreds of monarchs in our 7 acre field of mostly clover and fall wild aster. The field is on Casco Bay. We did not attempt to count the butterflies, but it was many hundreds. When the sun set, they went into the top of the tall oak trees on the side of our field. This evening is predicted to drop to 40 degrees.

Editor’s Note: We are estimating a minimum 300 monarchs based on observer’s estimate of “many hundreds.”

Freeport, ME

Latitude: 43.9 Longitude: -70.1

Observed by: Liza
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