Date: 10/07/2015

Number: 1000

I returned to the Osage Orange hedge I visited last week (9/30 and saw ~200). I have no way to accurately calculate how many Monarchs I saw this trip, but I believe it must be in the thousands. While I was in Saint Francis before visiting the hedge this time, there were hundreds of Monarchs in town. I saw them flying in ones and twos everywhere in town, but oddly I didn't see any actually LAND anywhere. When I pulled over across from the hedge at 2pm I could see there were MANY times more than last week. When another vehicle drove by me, a multitude of them took flight from roosting in the hedge and I saw how many there really were. Overnight temps upper 40s to low 50s. Mid to upper 70s during the day. Light wind from the South, so they were sheltered from the wind.

Saint Francis, KS

Latitude: 39.8 Longitude: -101.8

Observed by: Terry
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