Date: 05/06/2012

Number: 1

Earliest-Ever Monarch Sighting -- in 22 years of monitoring the Upper Delaware River Valley! As I stepped from a car to photograph the river, near Callicoon NY, a monarch kept flitting into the swale of a railraod embankment -- without alighting. (Local milkweed, alas, is still dormant.) It was 1:00 p.m., sunny and warm, but the buterfly didn't sail or glide as "fresh" monarchs will; wings were faded tho not tattered. I never observe adult monarchs up here until Memorial Day; and seldom before July in this century.

Callicoon, NY

Latitude: 41.8 Longitude: -75

Observed by: Edwin
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