Date: 09/13/2015

Number: 780

After a report of monarchs migrating along Lake Michigan at Glenn, MI, we drove over to South Haven to count some there. Yes, Peak migration.

Monarch Migration Sept. 13, 2015 at South Haven, MI along the Lake Michigan eastern shoreline

Clear
64 degrees
Wind NW 14 with gusts to 20
This is the last day of about 3 days of cool temps and rain day before yesterday. Mostly clear and cool (hi 64) yesterday too.

South Haven - two back to back half hour sessions, from parking area on Water St. at St. Joseph St. Russ Schipper watched continuously with binoculars looking NW through gap, between houses and trees along the Black River and Ilse Gebhard watched for nearby butterflies. Most were flying at about 20-50 feet, but some around a hundred feet up. They were moving within 30-40 yards of the lakeshore, saw nothing further inland. N 42.40185, W 086.28126

1:31 PM – 2:01 PM
402 butterfiles

2:01 – 2:31
327 butterfiles

1 hour total 729.



South Haven - From bluff by church on Monroe Blvd. we stopped back after an ice cream, we had good view to the N, but we could not see down to the beach and may have missed some. N 42.39916, W 086.28291

Clear
64 degrees
Wind NW 10

3:22 – 3:32 PM
51 butterflies

South Haven, MI

Latitude: 42.4 Longitude: -86.2

Observed by: Ilse
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