Date: 09/27/2009

Number: 1

The neighbor has some land along the North Concho River just south of Carlsbad, Texas. He tells me that there is a large roost in this area which is about 6 miles west of my place. He was telling me that while fishing that he observed a catfish catch a Monarch. He said the the Monarchs were coming to the rivers edge for water. Now, I don't know what to think of this because I was under the impression that Monarchs had no natural predators. I questioned him on this and he was sure it was a Monarch but wasn't sure about the fish; he thought it was a catfish but later changed his statement and said it could have been a bass????

The neighbor tells me that they noticed the Monarchs around September 27th.. I might add they are not sure of the date but this was close to the date I first reported a roost, which was around the 22nd.

Editor's Note: This observer did not specify the number of monarchs present. We entered 'one' in the number field only to mark this record for future consideration.

Carlsbad, TX

Latitude: 31.6 Longitude: -100.7

Observed by: Fredrick
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