Date: 09/03/2019

Number: 30

30 or more Monarchs roosting in our Willow trees this morning. My husband was leaving for work at 8am and he saw them first as he was backing out of the driveway. They were also flying around and sitting our gravel road.

I tried my best to count the ones I could see. We have over 60 willows! I believe a few flew over to the neighbors as I was counting. And some were on the gravel road.

We have hay fields full of clover, goldenrod, and my pollinator gardens.

Overnight temperatures were around 50. We had just had a line of thunderstorms go through around 3am. Was raining on and off after the line.

The wind was coming out of the west/nw and it was breezy after the storm line pushed through. While protected in the trees my whole line of willows are on a ridge so they are out in the open. After mid morning the Monarchs left. I haven’t seen them today. Maybe they roosted there because of the storm?

Viroqua, WI

Latitude: 43.5 Longitude: -90.8

Observed by: Emily
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