Date: 09/15/2010

Number: 1

Long Beach Island, NJ, is currently seeing one of the most abundant showings of migrating monarchs in years -- if not decades. Light westerly winds have blown them over to this barrier island. There are far too many to even estimate a count. I have been rough counting them since the early 1970s and have to harken back to those early years to recall seeing so many. I know of no local roosting points with this migration -- due, in part, to the loss of weeping willow trees, a tree species commonly used by roosting monarchs in our part of Jersey. My observation time: I was watching for __6+_ hours and ___ minutes.

Long Beach Island, NJ

Latitude: 39.7 Longitude: -74.2

Observed by: Jay
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