Date: 09/06/2016

Number: 100

watching the trees just before sundown. many monarchs flying around looking for a place to rest for the night. some liked it and set down others flew in irratic circles gaining altitude. I'm guessing when they hit 80-100 ft they let the light NE breeze take them SSE and they were gone. Quite a few others nectaring in on the yarrow and sunflowers nearby. I did not find a 'roost'. the monarchs were flitting about, one would land here another there. The spruce trees are to big to even see just a few monarchs and these seem to be overnighting in ones and twos.
Impossible to get a count. Although i did count nineteen that went Southeast. Those that were had it in thier mind to go somewhere went high 80-100ft. The ones intent on getting something to eat stayed low, 5-10 ft. Some right over my head, or right in front of my face. Those are the ones going back and forth from the trees to the flowers. The high ones.....some stayed, some went.

Brookings, SD

Latitude: 44.3 Longitude: -96.8

Observed by: tim
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