Date: 10/30/2010

Number: 1

Good flow continued ... light NW wind am, then calm
49 dF am 74 dF at 12:30, wind calm wanting to go NE, clr.

No clusters except the grass cluster! Don't know what you call monarchs you jump out of the grass along the shoreline, that flush like quail ... grass clusters!
It was early morning and we drove thru the tall grasses to get closer to some monarchs we saw hanging and these flushed! The same thing happened when Altus walked out in the grasses ... stopped a bit when it warmed up some.

At eleven we were seeing five to eight at one time ...
Altus had netted and I had tagged fifteen by noon and we were pooped so came home for awhile ... counted 58 in the
5 minute crossing of the causeway coming back to Port Lavaca.
We didn't have much of a strategy for netting on the sparse goldenrod when they didn't want to set down in the morning.

Today they were moving ENE to WSW in the almost calm out of the NW. Another front coming Tuesday ... Carole J's monarchs may be getting here about then and we would be peaking. Our peak is Carol C's average day recently ...
but it's still fun ... real clusters tonight? May have
to rent a tree for the peninsula, will they cluster on our artifical fir Christmas trees???

Altus is going to start marking her monarchs ... recaught one three times with our tag, one twice ... recaught one on the opposite side of the pennisula over an hour later on goldenrod again ... took no chances, she netted what she could!

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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