Date: 09/18/2012

Number: 1000

I watched hundreds of Monarch Butterflies feeding on mostly Goldenrod in some fields near the Gay Head Cliffs on Martha's Vineyard Island late in the afternoon on Sept. 18th. I then found the trees they were roosting on and watched them gather onto some privet trees. I'd say there were somewhere around 1000 butterflies. The trees were covered. I returned the next morning (Sept. 19th) to watch them all fly off the trees as they warmed up. By evening it seemed most of them had moved on.

Aquinnah, MA

Latitude: 41.3 Longitude: -70.8

Observed by: Sarah
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