Date: 09/08/2019

Number: 2

This was our first weekend this year of observing the southbound migration of monarchs over the Blue Ridge Parkway, which is a National Park. We saw one monarch at the Cherry Gap Overlook and another feeding on goldenrod just below Tennent Mountain, near the Shining Rock Wilderness. Surely these two signify the vanguard of the migration because there is no milkweed up there at all.

BTW Monarch watchers in our region may be interested in my book, A Pictorial Guide to the Monarch Butterfly Migration over the Southernmost Blue Ridge Parkway. It is available at the Pisgah Inn gift shop and their camp store as well as at several of the Blue Ridge Parkway bookstores in the Asheville area. And it is available at Amazon. I'd submit a photo of one of the monarchs we saw, but I mainly took video and the few photos I made with my phone weren't great. BTW I don't make money on this project. It's more a hobby. In fact, I give away a lot of copies.)
–Mickey Hunt

Canton, NC

Latitude: 35.3 Longitude: -82.9

Observed by: Mickey
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