Date: 09/18/2019

Number: 350

Third night of roosting in our yard and after a pretty small showing last night, we had bigger numbers tonight, much like two nights ago. There were a few interesting differences, however, compared to Monday night. From around 5:00 p.m. on there was a steady trickle of Monarchs into our yard, but they seemed unwilling to settle in after flitting around for awhile and would then continue on towards some trees west of us. If every butterfly that had visited our yard had stayed the night we would have numbered at least three or four times as many as we ended up having. Just happy to see so many large and healthy Monarchs cruising through. Finally, around 7:00 p.m., the final bubble of Monarchs settled in and quickly numbered slightly more than Monday night. There were many groups of around 20-25 with the trees of choice tonight being Silver Maple, Bald Cypress and Hackberry. All the clusters were on the east edge of the yard and located fairly low to the ground. Very few had chosen to roost in the Arborvitaes or Norway Spruces; their usual faves. Temperature was 76 degrees with high clouds and a light breeze of 6 mph from the east. Another perfect evening for our travelers.

Bement, IL

Latitude: 39.9 Longitude: -88.6

Observed by: Thomas
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