Date: 09/26/2016

Number: 400

Second roost on our property! The weather has been quite cool and very windy so they are not flying yet.

It has been the best ever Monarch year!! I'm still smiling. :)
The second (unexpected) roost was in our west tree line.(The first roost was all over the place!) There were 2 small clusters (I got one counted and it had 177 in it) and then a lot of small groupings (2-20) all down the west tree line. It was in this second roost that I spotted a tagged Monarch! I got a picture and called the phone number on it and reported the tag number. I hope at some point I might get an e-mail letting me know where it was tagged at in the beginning!
I noticed them at about 7:30 a.m. It was quite windy with a cold front moving through. The sun was warming them but the wind was too much to take off and fly. They spent another night here. I am still keeping a look out for 'stragglers' that may come through and I did have a 'single' on my butterfly plant out front yesterday (9/29).

Ivesdale, IL

Latitude: 39.9 Longitude: -88.5

Observed by: Trish
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