Date: 09/16/2016

Number: 100

They are roosting overnight in my yard! Around 6pm Sept 16th, I noticed many monarchs in the yard. They just continued to come in, and were flying around the maple trees in my front yard and many were landing, many continued south over the hills. (Loess Hills). They were settling in and continued to fill the branches and I realized right away what was happening.

It was calm and cool Friday evening. 56 degrees. Nice nearly-full moon. As far as any nectar source, I can’t think of any. Some were drinking from my hum feeders but they mostly just came in and landed or flew on south. ( I could see them in the distance north coming in in large numbers.) As I look at the pictures and video I took, I had more than 100 here, and they all spent the night. (I checked on them several times with flashlight) In the morning, there was a pretty good breeze coming from the north. They waited until the sun hit them (they were all on the east side of the trees) and they stretched their wings for a while (it was rather chilly) and they flew.

The pictures enclosed are of just a couple branches in the maple tree in my front yard.

Pisgah, IA

Latitude: 41.8 Longitude: -95.9

Observed by: Andrea
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