Date: 10/05/2019

Number: 5000

Thousands of Monarchs came through over 30 min or so as a front came through (see photo), and at the same time it seemed to be raining clumps of spiderweb material. Still a few passing through next morning. No photo [of monarchs] when majority passed through.

I had no phone when we saw the major numbers go over and my husband and I just said thousands. Most were gone when I came back with my camera and most were so high we weren’t even sure at first if they were bats or butterflies! There was a front coming through and we also found lots of clumps of white material blowing in with them (looked like ash or snow at first) which turned out to be spider web clumps.

We only saw a few [butterflies] down close enough to think they were monarchs when I posted on FB last night, but then multiple people sent me [photos] and I realized what they were.

Coyle, OK

Latitude: 36 Longitude: -97.2

Observed by: Susan
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