Date: 11/04/2018

Number: 220

Front came thru before sunrise this morning. We went
across the Lavaca Bay Causeway at 12:30. Wind NNW 15
mph when we went across. We saw monarchs in town as
we started out on TX35 and a few more just over the
causeway. We had a best count of 100 in 30 minutes,
all flying hard to the southwest and across Lavaca
Bay paralleling the causeway. We backtracked them and
found where they were coming off a low, mesquite and sun
flowered bluff (hill?) on Alcoa property at the beginning
of the peninsula. We parked and watched as threes and
fives came at us in spurts. Our stomachs sent a signal
to the brains to "EAT" and we left. We came back to
Port Lavaca and passed several alongside the causeway
also around town.

During our counting time we stopped at 220.

These should be getting to the Copano Bay, Rockport tomorrow
if they do at least 50 miles. Another front is supposed to
come in tomorrow/Tuesday, look for them down the coast after
north to northwest wind change. These today were flying low,
3' to 6', over land and gained altitude to 30+ feet over the
water. The stream of monarchs that we have been watching
has been less than half a mile across.

Yesterday, Nov. 3, very windy from S to SSE but did count 106.

Lavaca Bay Causeway, TX

Latitude: 28.7 Longitude: -96.6

Observed by: Harlen E.
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