Date: 10/28/2010

Number: 1

A nice flow before noon while the breeze was still out of the north ... wind calmed at 12:30 and switched to SE and numbers began to slack off ... light N wind again at sundown ... we await the morning since Carol J reports 1 every 100 ft the length of the causeway across the 24 mi lake at NOLA! On the peninsula to the Causeway across Lavaca Bay ... Best actual half hour count was 10:15 to 10:45 with 96 monarchs moving quickly from NE to SW ... there were monarchs moving along the peninsula all day and also thru town, we saw 500+ for the day ... thousands of buckeyes and were there and so were the white-tipped black moths pestering the monarchs. On one 5 minute trip across the causeway this morning we passed 38 monarchs going SW. We didn't count this afternoon, but Altus netted and I tagged twenty-one more monarchs by driving from stand to stand of the last few seaside goldenrod left ... took almost two hours but we were determined to finish that page! If we have another norther like that, the monarchs will nothing to nectar on. To the east of us eveything in under extreme drougt dontitions and the drought in LA and MISS are slowly moving westward with a lot of Texas starting to be in the parts of the national dry conditions. The monarchs we are seeing from direction are not plump like we'd like them to be!




Our watching for six hours.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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