Date: 09/26/2020

Number: 1

September 26 Put tag ZGM 711 on the fourth captive/reared Monarch of the year and put it out on the Butterfly Bush around 12:30 PM EDT. It stayed there, occasionally opening and closing its wings, until around 3:26 PM. Then it vibrated its wings very spasmodically, and then launched off to the east above the neighbors' house. It circled around changing its general direction to the west (perhaps a little to the north of west), and rising to more than 100 feet altitude. When last seen it was still very high in the air flapping and sometimes soaring and headed west.

Simpsonville, SC

Latitude: 34.7 Longitude: -82.3

Observed by: Chaffin
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