Date: 09/19/2010

Number: 200

September 24
The main flocks of butterflies left this farm this morning. There are still a few 'singles' around. The wind was minimal and the temps in the upper 70º's today.

September 21
The butterflies I reported 2 days ago are still here. There is a strong wind out of the south so each time one of them flies off of a branch, they are blown north. Yesterday I found that there were a lot more that came besides the ones in the yard. They are roosting on the north side of our north shelter belt, mostly on the cedars with some on elms. Yesterday a bunch of them were at the base of a round patch of tiger lilies, which bloom in late spring.

September 19
We live on a farm in McPherson County near Reno and Harvey counties. This evening as we were driving into the yard we sited literally hundreds of Monarchs. They are now roosting in maple and elm trees in the yard. Several years ago the migration roosted on locust trees. As we sat on the deck and looked up, there were hundreds of monarchs flying below treetop height, dozens of blue dragon flys about treetop height, with layers and layers of barn swallow birds flying up as high as we could see. It was good night to be outside at dusk.

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

Inman, KS

Latitude: 38.2 Longitude: -97.8

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