Date: 06/22/2019

Number: 5

RARE SIGHT Monarchs Migrating North
From Kay Milam, film director & producer of The Butterfly Trees. Her fb post. Submitting report with Kay's permission.

'Crazy True Story I Swear: so I’m driving along & a swarm of like 5 monarchs glide up over my car as I’m traveling at 55 mph - this is certainly not the time of year they aggregate - I don’t know if they perhaps enclosed this morning & held up in a tree until the rains passed & a gust of wind pushed them out simultaneously or what. Needless to say I almost wrecked!!!

If I had not seen this with my own eyes, I would not have believed this story - at least not this time of year...'

Kay provided me with additional info-

Basically Southern Indiana just North if the Ohio River. In a spot that I always, I mean always see migrating monarchs in the Fall. They were def flying NE ~ so in reverse of the Fall migration. Maybe 2:30p - no idea if there were wind gusts or not but it blew my mind... I’ve seen a lot of phenomena & have heard some stories of monarchs even landing in mass on the Great Lakes & taking off again, but this was quite an unusual first. If it had not of been my own eyes...

Upon checking weather app for Louisville it was about 75° with southerly wind

Floyds Knobs, IN

Latitude: 38.3 Longitude: -85.9

Observed by: Darlene
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