Date: 10/08/2017

Number: 278

278 observed in total along 4 km of lake Onatio shoreline. I stood in one place and counted 127 fly west past me in a 20 minute period. Winds were 17km/hr from the south, gusts up to 20. I then walked east 4 km adding to my count for total of 278.
Mostly flying to west very few were seen nectaring. Approx.20 of the count total were nectaring, there are few flowers left, on Tues Oct 3 there were still lots of booming asters with nectaring monarchs in this spot. Today there were few in bloom, perhaps that is why I observed less nectaring. I did find a large thistle that had up to 7 monarchs at a time on a single bloom. But it was down to just 5 when I took the picture

Ajax, ON

Latitude: 43.8 Longitude: -79

Observed by: Brian
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