Date: 09/05/2010

Number: 1

Many, many monarchs have been migrating through Shawano, Wisconsin the past two days (9/5-6). My wife and I were in the school gardens on Saturday and saw monarch after monarch migrating in a southern direction. Today, while playing tennis for 2 hours, my opponent and I watched monarch after monarch fly over the courts, through our games, and around us. It was distracting because they were coming one to two at a time and both of us kept watching for them. One time I threw the ball up to serve and when I looked up at it there was a monarch right above it by a couple feet. These were headed in a western direction rather than a southern direction. The wind was blowing from the south so that may explain their direction.

Earlier this week (Sept. 1 and Sept. 2) I was teaching my second graders about monarchs, their life cycles, and the migration. It was pretty neat because we had monarchs drifting by our classroom window during this time and the kids could see them. All of them were headed in the same direction (west again) and they looked like they were flying with a purpose. Same thing at recess, monarchs kept coming.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Shawano, WI

Latitude: 44.8 Longitude: -88.6

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