Date: 10/13/2017

Number: 2100

I was running a corporate volunteer day with WWF Canaea and City of Toronto staff at Toronto Islands, so had the opportunity to estimate/count monarchs as they moved west - average for the 10: 00 to 1:30 pm time slot was about 8-10 per minute. There were many tens feeding on remaining flowers too.

Forwarded by Don Davis
Forecast weatherwise not too promising this weekend. Quite warm right now and cloudy, so want to get out here near Cobourg, east of Toronto, to check for monarchs. Southwesterly winds not favourable later today with rain. Tomorrow strong winds out of the north and heavy rains and temperature dropping at night to 5 C or 41 F. Wondering if all these monarchs are fleeing the approaching cold front. One observer in east Toronto counted 332 monarchs pass through his back yard from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm, and only one stopped to nectar on Mexican sunflower. So late!

Toronto, ON

Latitude: 43.6 Longitude: -79.4

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