Date: 09/04/2009

Number: 200

I was outside taking pictures of hummingbirds when I noticed a lot of monarchs flying toward a tree on our farm. When I got to the tree, there were hundreds of Monarchs roosting for the night. I have been watching them for over a week taking pictures of them in the tree.I have never seen so many butterflies in my life. I have only lived on this farm for 10 months. There farm has 3 flower gardens and vegetable garden. So, the monarchs must come here every year. They roost in the pine trees in the back of our yard. I have had so much fun taking pictures of these beautiful creatures. I also, had a very surprisingly dragonflies visit come to our farm on Saturday the 12th of September. There were hundreds and I do mean hundreds of these creatures flying all around, they never stopped to rest and left within a couple of hours. Our monarchs left yesterday (9/16). They would roost at night around 6:30pm and leave the tree between 8am-9am everyday. My observation time: I was watching for 2 hours and minutes.
the dragonflies time: I was watching for 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Editor’s Note: We are estimating a minimum of 200 monarchs based on observer’s estimate of “hundreds.”

Fort Dodge, IA

Latitude: 42.5 Longitude: -94.2

Observed by: FC
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