Date: 10/11/2011

Number: 15

Altus and I went across the causeway to the peninsula at the northeast end of the Lavaca Bay Causeway in Calhoun County from 12:30 to 1:30.

In that hour we saw fifteen distinct monarchs and she netted two. The ones flying in were coming from the ENE, those leaving were flying low following the peninsula between SW and WSW. Altus netted one off a short sunflower and drop-netted one on a blooming six-inch A. oenotheroides in the grass. The two females had front wings of 52 mm and had mass of .48 and .42 ... fade of the heavier was a bit more.

Things are greening and there is a strip of coreopsis now just off the pavement for over half a mile and a smattering of sunflowers. None have gone to the coreopsis yet ...
about fifty stems of seaside goldenrod left along the peninsula.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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