Date: 09/08/2019

Number: 12000

Oh my! Huge migration!

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It was just an awesome experience. I had 3 of my sisters visiting me and we watched in amazement in the morning. Tried to count them and just could not keep up. So we decided to set a timer for a minute, each of us try to count before timer when off, then took the average of our individual count. Each time we did this (3 times) we counted 4800 in an hour. And the frequency never let up! All day long! We watched longer than 2.5 hours and the flow was steady for at least 5 hours. But we could not continue counting & doing averages. So I actually think we under reported.

Our neighbors were watching in amazement too. I did not report yesterday’s count but it was more of the same! It was in the thousands yesterday too although we did not watch all day long and we did not time any count. It reminded us of large fire ashes floating in the air but they were monarchs. I don’t know if i should record a guess count for yesterday but it was in the thousands.

They were flying along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Several landed on my flowering canna plants and stayed for a few minutes - but that was only a half dozen that we watched.

Montague, MI

Latitude: 43.5 Longitude: -86.5

Observed by: Julie
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