Date: 09/29/2019

Number: 54

At 1450 hours I walked outside and looked up to see 6 monarchs soaring about overhead at about 50 to 60 ft high. I sat and watched the sky from 1450 until 1532 hours and observed 53 in 42 minutes. Most were quite high. A minute or two would pass with no monarchs then they would come in groups. The rest I saw earlier in the day migrating. Winds out of the southwest at 6mph temperatures 81 Fahrenheit. Partly cloudy. Despite the southwest wind they were heading southwest. They were doing quite a bit of circling around. They seemed to be petering out about 1515 hours. I did see one monarch with its bottom right wing missing but it still was heading southwest with the rest. It was just over a tree top.

Carthage, IN

Latitude: 39.7 Longitude: -85.6

Observed by: John
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