Date: 10/06/2015

Number: 100

Starting just after sunrise I checked past roost areas. Temp high 50's wind nealry calm. At 0815 found one cluster of 9. Elsewhere a few flying under trees. At 8:30 I saw one apparently roosting in Western Ragweed, not far from liatris. I saw it only because it opened its wings as I was looking in the right direction. This is the attached picture.

I continued to drive/walk around. At about 8:45 I started to see a few feeding on liatris. When I returned to trees I saw more perching or flying next to several tree groves and individual trees.

Numbers continued to increase on liatris until I left at 10:15. At no point did I see one flying along for any distance. The increasing numbers just seemed to appear where they were, so it seems that they were roosting distributed around the property, not clustered, except for the group of 9.

Chalk Mountain, TX

Latitude: 32.1 Longitude: -97.9

Observed by: Gregg
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