Date: 09/13/2016

Number: 100

A cloud of Monarchs crossing the Chesapeake Bay this morning, flying parallel to the Bay Bridge near Annapolis, MD

Old timers in area say such a sighting was not unusual years ago and they would sit on their docks and beaches and watch the Monarchs arrive for the night to roost in the large old cedar trees.

Went looking the next morning for their roost and found a group of 18 already busy nectaring on some late blooming (It had been mowed down in July)Butterfly Weed.

Cape May NJ confirms that winds were out of the SE all day which favors Monarchs crossing Delaware and Chesapeake Bay rather than following the Atlantic coast line or crossing Ches Bay at tip of VA.

Annapolis, MD

Latitude: 39 Longitude: -76.5

Observed by: Judy
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