Date: 10/25/2014

Number: 300

As expcected Fri 10/24 and Sat 10/25 under warm sunny skies we tagged about 25 each day exhausting my supply of tags each day. The daily total of monarchs each day was about 300. On 10/24 we had two recoveries of monarchs tagged on 10/23. On 10/25 we had one recovery of a monarch tagged on 10/24. As I noted before there were many skinny abdomens so a lot of nectaring going on! By Saturday abdomens were looking bigger.

So tagged a total of 92 at the coast last week (10/13-18), most I've tagged out there because of the earlier timing of the birding festival this year. If it's early again next year I'll make more of an effort to tag more and hopefully get a few recoveries from points north.

From week of Oct 20-25, Dare county, nc: 1000 monarchs. Hope SC gets a few of these...

Courtesy of Carolina Leps

Dare County, NC

Latitude: 35.8 Longitude: -75.8

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