Date: 08/25/2015

Number: 80

I had many monarchs in my gardens all day feeding. As the sun was lowering in the sky, I watched as they started to flit between the amur maples and spruces - 20 to 30 of them at a time flying overhead. They then started to settle in to the last small patch of sunlight near the top of one of the spruces. I estimated at least 60 in the roost with numerous stragglers in small groups amidst some of the other trees nearby. I raise and release a lot of monarchs each summer, but the previous couple of days I had been releasing at educational events, so I believe that many of these guys were migrating through. I will keep an eye out and hopefully discover more roosts on our property. This was a first! (sorry - no good photos)

Trimbelle, WI

Latitude: 44.7 Longitude: -92.6

Observed by: Amy
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