Date: 10/13/2016

Number: 5000

Steady stream flying over head for roughly 20 minutes, then a slow trickle for the next 40 minutes. I was on "mesa" like formation on private property just SW of Christoval. I was at a higher elevation for the area. I was in the middle of a avian point count when a heavy stream of monarch butterflies were passing over head. I counted for 10 minutes and was counting anywhere from 230 to 282 every two minutes. The stream intensity did not start to trickle off until after twenty minutes. There were monarchs anywhere from 2 meters to roughly 15 meter off the ground from my relative position. The higher monarchs I identified with binoculars. I am 100% sure they were monarchs. They were definitely not American snout. No pictures were taken.

10:35AM
Temperature: 68.3F
Wind: SW
Wind speed: 3.6 mph (taken with kestrel 2000)
Mostly cloudy

Christoval, TX

Latitude: 31.2 Longitude: -100.5

Observed by: Drew
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