Date: 09/19/2015

Number: 100

Amazing sight, many 100s congregating in open field of clovers and milkweed, also clinging to the trees along the hedgerows

My wife and I went down to this preserve for the first time. It's a newly protected area on a hilltop in the finger lakes of upstate NY. We arrived around noon on 9.19.15 and immediately noticed monarchs both in the open field full of clover and milkweed. As we walked through a path near the hedgerows 10 at a time would fly off the maples and bushes and milkweed in the hedgerows. It was pretty amazing. They were way up in the trees, down in the bushes and feeding out in the fields. We only walked on side and we could see them out through the field (probably a good 20 acre field, left natural not under current cultivation). We easily saw over 150 in our little area and we were still seeing them as we walked into the woods. It was very windy and getting ready to rain that day. The hedgerows and woods provided a nice wind shield but even with the stiff winds they were actively feeding in the fields.

Scott, NY

Latitude: 42.8 Longitude: -76.2

Observed by: Matt
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