Date: 09/16/2014

Number: 216

20-25 per hr moving westward along shoreline bluff through Seacliff Park starting about 13:00 EDT. They were moving along Robson Rd from Sturgeon Creek area into a SW steady but light wing, by using the deciduous trees and landscape material. At 18:30 there were fewer flying but more high in the maple trees.

I counted 100+ flying at low altitude and the I rest counted with binoculars monarchs feeding mostly at about 70 acres of Red Clover being used to condition Brookstone clay fields 3 miles north of Point Pelee National Park. At 16:00 EDT, there was movement westward from this field towards the sun, rather than southward towards the park.
Smaller numbers were found in two spots on both red clover and Solidago.

air temperature 19 Celsius (66 F)

Leamington, ON

Latitude: 42.1 Longitude: -82.6

Observed by: Gary
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