Date: 10/15/2018

Number: 60

From 9:30-10:30am. Multiple monarchs flying high above the tree tops! None came down to nectar but there was not much at this location for them. A couple dropped below the tree top line. One came far enough down for the kids to get a closer look, but almost all stayed just above the tree tops. A few way up high.

The weather was cloudy and cool. It must have warmed up just enough for them when we were outside. They were really easy to see against the high thin clouds.

I was outside all day that day. When I came home to my back yard about 6 miles south east it cleared up and in the warmer sun I had regular visitors all afternoon in my pollinator garden. Two or three at a time and then they move on heading southwest. I have perennial mums in my garden and the monarchs arrived each of the last three years the same week the mums bloom. Butterflies all over them last year.

I watched on and off the next day for a more steady stream but no more yesterday or today at school in Sandy Springs. I just saw a single one in my back yard in Brookhaven.

Sandy Springs, GA

Latitude: 33.9 Longitude: -84.4

Observed by: Mary
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