Date: 10/12/2018

Number: 100

I was very excited to see so many. I went outside to check on my garden about 3:30 pm and stayed outside til after 5pm. I took about 20 photos with my phone but they were all so far away up in the trees that the butterflies are not very visible. Most of them are sitting and opening and shutting their wings after it had rained all morning. Some are hanging upside down. I counted the ones that were sitting still on my 2 large Vitex (Chaste) trees. They may have been feeding there (the honeybees do), but I couldn't tell. Some others flew over in ones and twos. I was outside for about 1 1/2 hours and stopped counting at 100. I think they were migrating through in front of a cold front.
It rained very hard here this afternoon, October 13, but it is clear now at 4 pm. I just went outside and counted 13 in 10 minutes but no more.

It has been drizzling/raining most of the day. The monarchs fly a few feet and then go back and rest on 2 giant Vitex trees.

Fort Worth, TX

Latitude: 32.8 Longitude: -97.4

Observed by: Darla Dameron
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