Date: 09/17/2010

Number: 1

A bit belatedly I thought to mention some nice sightings along the
shores of the Rockaway peninsula of Queens County, N.Y. City on
September 17, 2010 - many of these sightings were in a 2-hour period
walking along Riis beach, that is to say while actually on the beach
and in the surf line. The Monarchs in particular were really
"motoring" along on a good northerly wind and there were constantly
dozens, occasionally 50 or more in view at any instant in that mid-day
time period. There were actually additional Monarchs seen in other
area locations by two of us that day & the total numbers of Monarch
butterflies seen that day easily exceeded 5,000 - for the day. I
haven't seen that many other notes from elsewhere in the mid-Atlantic
or northeastern regions to indicate whether that day was a
particularly big day for that species southwesterly-directed
migrations, or just a part of a relatively good season for the
species. My guess (only) is that it was a very big day. We have good
potential for big Monarch & other butterfly movements in the next
several days with a possibility of southern-afinity species as well.

Courtesy of Monarch Watch

Jacob Riis Park, NY

Latitude: 40.6 Longitude: -73.9

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