Date: 03/21/2014

Number: 1

4 pasture Monarchs early on 3/21/14

10:45 large, faded female low and slow going east just by the RV ... I watched thru binocs then we followed in the ecart as she disappeared slowly to the NE ... nectaring on a short white flower that has just started blooming.

12:30 female ... large, faded, with some tatter. She flew around us several times ... Altus got out and followed her up into taller grass to get a picture and flushed another monarch that had been down in the grasss ... we were driving away and it decided to fly a circle around us and disappear down into the mesquite brush ... faded, sex?

1:30 4th monarch flew between the cabin and the RV at about 20' as we were having our lunch and watching humming birds at the feeder ... it came by low and slow going past to the west.

These monarchs have been looking either for the milkweed (but Altus could find no eggs) or looking to nectar on the few scattered flower.

Foggy and warm this morning ... cloudy and 78 dF ...very humid almost no wind out of the south ...

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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