Date: 10/15/2016

Number: 350

I stopped counting at 350, but there were more in the pecan trees and flying in. Heavy wind from the south, and monarch roosting on north sides of pecans and oaks in a sheltered courtyard. Have seen them there several years in the past on this same weekend.

12:30 pm was when I first noticed them in the tree; by 2, when we left, they were still there with many more coming in. I don't know exact overnight temps since we were visiting, but they have been running in the sixties this week with daytime in the high eighties to low nineties. The location sits in the middle of many acres of cotton, which is long past bloom. There are areas of broom weed and Maximilian sunflowers alongside the roads. Wind blowing very strongly from the south all week, roost on north side of trees, in a sheltered courtyard. This the fourth time, I think, that we have seen this roost in this location the third weekend of October. Size varies from year to year. Sorry I did not get a photo; had not thought to take my iPad. This is about 125 miles southwest of where we live and normally report from.

Editor's note: We've re-dated this report from 10/16 to 10/15, the night the roost formed.

San Angelo, TX

Latitude: 31.4 Longitude: -100.3

Observed by: Marianne
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