Date: 09/20/2016

Number: 44

Ideally, I should have come down to the Cobourg area sooner, but still managed to capture 44 monarchs in about 1.5 hours. Still finding a good number of large caterpillars. Monarchs were stopping to feed on goldenrod located on the leeward side of the wooded area out of the fairly strong southwesterly winds, and were easy to spot from a distance. Large specimens with large abdomens. A few were captured as they soared westward and flew right into my net when I stuck the net up in the air. One was hand captured on a round clover flower, very preoccupied with feeding, and another, newly emerged and resting on grass, was easily knocked down and quickly but gently hand captured. Those two spectacular captures should qualify for the renewal of my Monarch Watch black belt in monarch capturing!

Toronto weather was predicted to drop to 4 C, and Cobourg prediction is for 8 C, but the night sky will be clear.

Cobourg, ON

Latitude: 44 Longitude: -78.2

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