Date: 09/09/2019

Number: 1000

My friend Nikki King works for the Lake Erie Aquatic Center. They were doing research in Maumee Bay yesterday, and she messaged me to say they were seeing thousands of monarchs. Nikki tried to take video, but you can't see them well in the video. Nikki reported, "We've been seeing a few monarchs here and there all morning. Then around 11:30 the sun came out and temps hit 66F and we saw several. Probably 100 in 2 minutes. Then all of a sudden several hundred! Thousands, I can't even count!" winds were North at 4-6mph.

I contacted Ross Ellet, meteorologist for Channel 13 news, to see if he could see them on Doppler radar. He couldn't, but he said it was very likely they were flying below the radar beam.

Friends in Sandusky and Port Clinton reported seeing loads of monarchs in roadside ditches. A great migration day along the Lake Erie coast!

Maumee Bay, OH

Latitude: 41.7 Longitude: -83.4

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