Date: 11/30/2016

Number: 1

Well its Nov 30 and the Rosetta McClain hawk watch is finished for the year. Hawk watchers are the best butterfly counters! They miss nothing! Here is an excerpt from the Rosetta Hawkwatch year end summary: - Monarch observations: Total count and tagging summary.
Monarch Butterfly Counting and Tagging (4561) - A slightly higher count than last year. I suspect the near-complete lack of northwest wind during the month of September had a big part to play in the overall low number again this fall. Many Monarchs likely migrated across the city further north and out of our viewing range. On September 14th we observed an estimated 1000+ Monarchs flying westward. Terry and Betty, with the help of many others, managed to capture, weigh, measure, tag, and release an incredible 976 Monarchs this season. So far, this year's Rosetta tagged Monarchs have been found nectaring at flowers on the Toronto Islands (Aug 26th), at Woodbine Beach (Sep 12th), and at Ashbridge's Bay (Oct 6th). The furthest and most interesting find without a doubt was in the St. Mark's National Wildlife Refuge in Florida (Nov 5th)! We now wait to see how many of the Rosetta tagged Monarchs are found in Mexico at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, the mountainous region where they normally spend their winters.
Walter
A special thanks to Walter Fischer for this monarch data from Rosetta McClain Gardens.

Toronto, ON

Latitude: 43.7 Longitude: -79.3

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