Date: 10/26/2017

Number: 200

Monarchs Streaming - Long Point, Ontario

Received a telephone call today from a monarch enthusiast who joined others yesterday (10/26) at the base of the Long Point peninsula on Lake Erie to capture and band raptors. As I noted earlier, the northwesterly winds are good for pushing raptors to the Lake Ontario and Erie shorelines and then they follow the shoreline west.

Wonder if the monarchs were also fleeing from the north assisted by the cold winds yesterday. My friend Harry, reported that in three hours, monarchs streamed past their location and he estimated between 150 and 200 passed by in three hours. Harry noted that this figure would not include all of the monarchs that passed them by further afield. The counting and streaming was continual yesterday (10/26)...."there is one....another two....three more" and so on.

Courtesy of Don Davis

Port Rowan, ON

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -80.4

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