Date: 09/01/2019

Number: 1

We decided on our way home on Sunday afternoon to visit a Wildlife Restoration portion of State Game Lands #333, just off of Shiloh Road, to see if any Monarchs might be in the area.  We had barely parked the car when a Monarch butterfly flew overhead at about 30 feet headed west.  A few minutes later a Monarch butterfly came back across the parking lot (heading southeast) and disappeared in amongst the flowers that were in bloom.  I’m assuming it was the same butterfly.

I had not yet gotten my camera out when this happened, and we did not see any more Monarchs while we were there (roughly 4:25 PM to 4:45 PM) .  However, I did take some photos of the area and some of the variety of yellow flowers growing there to give you a sense of the place.  I plan to stop by again in a week or so to see if anything Monarch-related is happening then.  Stay tuned!

Conditions at the time of our visit under cloudy skies included:

• Temperature:     70°F
• Dewpoint:     60°F
• Humidity:     70%
• Air Pressure:     28.9 inches
• Wind from the SSW at about 8 mph

                    -  Tim

State College, PA

Latitude: 40.8 Longitude: -77.8

Observed by: R. Timothy
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