Date: 09/28/2019

Number: 2250

5:45pm Upon arriving at park observed about 50 Monarchs roosting on Hackberry tree on sheltered west side of tree just out front of entrance to park. Observed another 50 on Hackberry just inside of front entrance.
6:10-7:40 Evening Monarchs at the Tip at Point Pelee National Park
22°c high 23°c Overnight low 12°c
Cloudy with Strong NE wind 24-47 kmh
Sunset 7:18 Sunrise 9/29 7:16
With the wind change from the afternoon, Monarchs had completely relocated to
Into 2 main roosts; one large roost of about 1800 monarchs in their fav Hackberry tree on mostly south side & a couple clusters lower on ESE side of same tree. Others were on low hanging grapevine draped to same Hackberry.
From west path another large roost on south side of a Hackberry visible from West path. This is an area chosen previous years.
About 20 clustered at Tip shuttle stop.
All appeared pristine.

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Point Pelee National Park, ON

Latitude: 41.9 Longitude: -82.5

Observed by: Darlene
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