Date: 06/12/2011

Number: 1

I live the Newfoundland section of West Milford, New Jersey which is in northern New Jersey, within a 15 minute drive of the New York State border. I pulled in the driveway around 3:45 this afternoon,and while fumbling for the keys for the front door of the house a Monarch flew over me and then made 2 passes over the driveway and flew around the side of the house. I ran around the side of the house but it was nowhere to be found. I couldn't tell whether it was a female or male but when I checked the Common, Tropical and Swamp Milkweed all around the house I found 2 eggs on the Common M/W. In 2010 and 2009 the first Monarch arrived almost 2 weeks later than this year on June 27 in both years and in 2008 the first one arrived on June 1st. I was surprised to see a Monarch or anything flying today as it has been very overcast and cloudy here in Northern NJ for the past 2 days. We had a misty rain all day yesterday with temps in the high 60's and today no rain but overcast with temps in the high 60's and low 70's all day.

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West Milford, NJ

Latitude: 41.1 Longitude: -74.4

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