Date: 09/19/2016

Number: 24

Actually two roosting nights to report. Had a lot of activity Saturday night at the Ken Silvey residence......thanks to his high location and the blooming alfalfa field across the road to the east. Saturday was mostly singles and doubles, although there was one roost of four that I spotted. Temps were approaching 60 degrees, just a shade too warm for a good clustering action.
Last night was on the warm edge, too, but the air was calm and there were enough late migrant monarchs that found the alfalfa field to give us a pretty good show. Three roosts formed on Ken's high ash tree, 4 to 8 in each. Plus, there were lots of scattered monarchs in other trees. I estimate a couple of dozen...compared to the maybe 40 or so Saturday night. I suspect these were almost all different monarchs.
During the day, I have been seeing low flying monarchs fighting the southern winds that have prevailed lately.
While fishing Paulson lake, four monarchs flew past, prompting me to head to Silvey's place for another look.
Glad I did.

Osceola, WI

Latitude: 45.2 Longitude: -92.7

Observed by: Pat
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