Date: 09/08/2019

Number: 1000

Day 2 of viewing the Cornish Hen Regatta. Travelled to the same location as yesterday to view the dinghy racing. Sitting on a bench in the Lasalle Marina area watching the boats with my binoculars and enjoying conversation with some very nice retired steelworkers. Not noticing any Monarch activity until 14:30. Ones and twos at first and then the sky was full. Between 14:45 and 15:00 I counted one thousand. Sadly the regatta had ended and I need to leave to go help remove boats back in Hamilton. I would have loved to stay to count more. There were more monarchs in the sky than this but this was all I could count in the view from my binoculars. However if I moved the binocular view around there were monarchs filling the sky at high altitudes. Most monarchs were visible only with the binoculars. High of 19°C low of 17°C. Did not take note of the wind direction on my device but it appeared to be generally Southwest and moderate.
In conversation with these gentlemen they shared with me that they had seen monarchs here the last couple of years but they had gone away for a number of prior to that but that historically you would see many travelling through this area each autumn. So please take note local monarch lovers, I pass the torch to you.

Burlington, ON

Latitude: 43.3 Longitude: -79.8

Observed by: Laura
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