Date: 11/02/2009

Number: 1000

The largest numbers in a short time that I've seen in
a couple of years!

At five they were passing the tip of the peninsula at the north end of the Lavaca Bay Causeway to Port Lavaca to cross Lavaca Bay from NE to SW at a rate of about 1000 an hour. Altus had never been with me when there had been a rate this large and was pleasantly surprised to sit in the van parked on the oyster shell shore facing into the flow watching twenty at a time surge around us. She walked out into the weeds to photograph a few of roosts/clusters forming before sundown and just as the full moon was coming up. We then came home and enjoyed her birthday supper of a footlong coney island hotdog and tater tots from Sonic ... too many good things all in one day ... living it up when you're retired! Her photos ... 6 large from her cell phone, will take a moment or two to load, have good download speed!...

http://mcmc.homestead.com/nov209.html

Altus had been walking across the marsh along the peninsula Friday and Saturday to net monarchs ... had netted 166 which included over 20 she had finger plucked from roosts/clusters Friday night and Saturday night. Roosts/clusters probably totaled over a thousand along the tip from what we could see tonight, probably half that last night. We've just been watching them since Saturday ... sometimes you just sit back and watch!!! We don't get them very often like this down here. Thank y'all for sending them!

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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