Date: 09/04/2017

Number: 2

Another report that I thought I made long ago but now can't find. We checked the usual roosting grounds for the monarchs on South Bass island. We looked for roosting monarchs on the property adjacent to the lighthouse. But trees were cut down last year, removing the wind break that was once there. And now we could only find 2 monarchs, hiding way up the hill on the other side of the sunflowers. They were not roosting in the trees, but instead trying to dodge the wind by going into the interior of the tree line and hunkering low to the ground in the sumac. This is the first time I have ever seen them do this, the loss of the windbreak is really showing its damage. I hope the naturalists found more roosting monarchs in the weeks after this. There should have been far more here, as there has been 400 during the 2nd week of September in 2014 and 2015.

Put-in-Bay, OH

Latitude: 41.6 Longitude: -82.8

Observed by: candy
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