Date: 10/21/2018

Number: 210

Hundreds of adult monarchs all over the island last week. I am 100 percent sure these were Monarchs.

We were on vacation in Oak Island, NC and we were surprised to see so many Monarchs every where we looked! They were over the ocean, on the beach, on the dunes and inland. We never saw them on any flowers...pretty much only Goldenrod left this time of the year, we only saw them land on the sand.
I decided to place a sighting on Journey North because I thought it was unusual that they were all over the beach and island. My number of 250 was very conservative...they were everywhere you looked.
I have enclosed one of the pictures we took showing a Monarch taking in what seems to be salt from the sand.

Oak Island, NC

Latitude: 33.9 Longitude: -78.2

Observed by: Carol
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