Date: 09/05/2019

Number: 80

Found out to my surprise that we had a "late" morning roost going. With SE winds gusting to 25 mph this morning and temps in the upper 60's at 10:50am, there were approximately 80 Monarchs clustering in small roosts out of the wind. Many were on the north side of our acreage's north/west grove, while others were inside the yard out of the wind, and many uncountable individuals were flying about. One Monarch was perched in a soft maple by itself and had a paper tag on it's left wing. The tag read "239 281-3331 335N" I took a chance that the first part of the tag number was a phone number and called it...the person answering said his daughter tagged the Monarch on August 20th in Franksville, Wisconsin!

Hartley, IA

Latitude: 43.1 Longitude: -95.5

Observed by: Bruce
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