Date: 08/30/2019

Number: 300

(first attempts to report might have failed....repeating that info with a different photo.......)
Big numbers of Monarchs at Standing Cedars, south of Osceola. Very hard to count, but nearly 150 in three good sized clusters......with countless scattered singles/doubles/unseen clusters.
Wind was nearly calm, but had been light all day NNW. All roosts photographed were in roadside trees. Early trees were not clustering well, so i moved further south, and found two very nice bunches. Interestingly, this tree was on a slight rise in the road so was perhaps higher than the other trees i had left. (However, at nearly dark, when I returned to the first trees, a nice cluster had formed that i was able to photograph; I suspect that if i could have been in several places at once, I could have seen several more clusters, in this same vicinity and also in the standing cedars area itself).
Food in the area consists of a variety of flowers at Standing Cedars nature preserve and also neighboring farm wildflowers.
Temperature was nearing 60 and ended up in the low 50s for the night. Monarchs photographed were mostly on the west edge of the trees, but one of the clusters was on the east side.
Winds are predicted to be southerly tomorrow, so i'll most likely go back to see if the monarchs stay for another show : )

Osceola, WI

Latitude: 45.2 Longitude: -92.7

Observed by: Pat
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