Date: 11/08/2018

Number: 465

BIG PUSH!

Altus and I left the house at 12:30 to make a short trip
across the Lavaca Bay Causeway to the peninsula at the
northeast end. We were met with a good number of monarchs
coming across to the southwest paralleling the causeway.
We counted on both sides of the peninsula and found the
flow of monarchs to steady and rather heavy. Our best
ten minute count was 102 monarchs heading across the bay
from 3' to as high as I could see with 8X, but then we had
an eight minute count of 120 monarchs. Our total when we
returned to Port Lavaca was a count of 465 monarchs.

465 monarchs 12:30 - 1:38 over causeway and LBC peninsula.

Mostly cloudy, wind NNE @ 8, 78 dF. Cold and wet (really
cold for us) arriving late today. In a couple of days the
hi's will be near 59-60 and low's in upper 30's for a week.

Don: This has been a good average year, much better than
recent but in the last ten years we had three much better.
The timing was about right - - we figure the largest number
will be after a cold front about Oct 21-25, big days are
Oct 28 to Nov 9 then tapering off.

Take care --- last push along the Tex coast?

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.7 Longitude: -96.6

Observed by: Harlen E.
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