Date: 10/07/2017

Number: 300

Saw around 300 tonight. (Saturday night)

I have been watching this area for the last few days. I first started seeing Monarchs about 1 week ago with a group of around 50, then smaller groups of 10 to 20 throughout the week. On Saturday evening, we started to see the large group of Monarchs flying in all over town. (in Wichita Falls) I live in Burkburnett, TX and noticed them flying over my house in the daytime at around 6:00pm. I headed out to Lake Wichita (on the south edge of Wichita Falls) which is where I look for the roost. They Monarchs began coming into roost at around 5:00pm to 8:00pm. We have a group of taggers out there and some tagged about 100 that evening. The temperature was at about 82 deg. F for the high, and the night time low was 63 deg. F. The wind (about 8 mph from the West) was very light on Saturday evening when they were flying in.

Lots of painted ladies also!

Burkburnett, TX

Latitude: 34.1 Longitude: -98.6

Observed by: Lynn
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