Date: 11/13/2015

Number: 20

We made a late trip across the Lavaca Bay Causeway
and peninsula at 5:20 this afternoon. As we approached
the tall group of salt cedars on the east side, we saw
a monarch flying around near the top of one tall tree.
With binoculars I could see several monarchs had already
loosely clustered. We drove to the end of the peninsula
and turned around to get a view looking towards the
west and northwest. We could see at least 20 monarchs
were hanging out for the night just below the tops the
tallest two salt cedars. We have made this trip at this
time of day for a couple of weeks and this is the first
time we found more than half a dozen monarchs clustering
near each other. We were expecting it and it all came
together with cool weather and the right wind.

Cold front came in just after midnight yesterday with some
rain but the temp dropped 20 degrees yesterday to today.
Very windy, but this evening cloudy, mid level clouds, winds
NNW 8 mph, warmed to 66 dF. Another strong front coming
Mon-Tue, stormy. We will watch for monarchs that still move
to SW for another week or so. Thank U for the cooler days in
the 60s ... fall must be near!

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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