Date: 10/24/2008

Number: 1

Light flow of monarchs continued across the area. On the peninsula to the north end of the Lavaca Bay Causeway, monarchs were coming from 60 deg (ENE) and leaving out across Lavaca Bay on a heading of 240 deg all day. The best flow was between 10:30 am and 2:00 pm before the wind switched from light N to 10 mph E. The best count was an average of 18 per 10 minutes starting at 10:30 (which would have been 108/hr. had it sustained) and 12 per 10 min starting at 12:30. Later in the day, it was strange, but there would be a burst of three
to four in row, ten to twenty feet apart, nose to tail, then nothing for several minutes but the next right down the same path in the empty sky. Altus saw several crossing the roads and streets in Victoria, Moulton, and then on the drive back to Port Lavaca this afternoon, even had one want to be a hood ornament at a traffic light in Victoria ... stopped, then flew on 'tho.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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