Date: 09/11/2012

Number: 420

There was a nice movement of Monarchs through Cape May Monday afternoon through Tuesday afternoon this week. The Monarch Monitoring Project recorded 150 Monarchs per hour on the 3:00 census Monday and over 420 Monarchs per houron the noon census Tuesday (9/11) (that was the peak of the flight). There were quite a few Monarchs nectaring in the butterfly gardens on Cape May Point. A mystical 911.

There were a couple of small roosts seen at Cape May Point State Park by a local birder on Tuesday morning and a roost of over 100 Monarchs seen by Pat Sutton (noted on her website) on Monday evening at East Point Lighthouse, Heislerville, NJ.

I just wanted to let you know that the MMP has also been recording Cloudless Sulphur numbers. These southern emigrants, and others, have been seen in unusually high numbers this year. They may eventually become a barometer of climate change...

Cape May, NJ

Latitude: 39 Longitude: -74.9

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