Date: 09/30/2020

Number: 1

Extremely windy, sunny day & 73 degrees. I released a number of Monarchs here at the church parking lot on Thomas St. One particular male Monarch flew up in the air and either changed directions, or was wisked away by the wind and flew right smack into the electric/telephone wire! He hit it hard and fell straight down onto the road! He laid there in the road, wings flat together. :( My husband picked him up carefully, and he appeared to still be alive. :). We put him back in the Big, square net and into the car to give him a chance to recouperate and see if he would be ok. We didn't close the car door so that it wouldn't be hot in there. While we stood nearby, talking to the neighbor lady, all of a sudden, we saw the square net tumbling down the road, with the Butterfly in it!... and a car coming towards it! The car stopped and went around the net, as we ran to pick it up. What a sight as this butterfly rolled down the road in the net! ...This poor butterfly! The wind must have pulled the net out of the car and carried it. (*At least it wasn't the smaller net or it might have been carried into a tree!) He did not seem to mind that he had just been tumbling...only we were shook up. Then, in about a half an hour, he was ready to fly again. This time he landed high up in a Nearby tree... Safely. :) What a time for this guy! If I hadn't seen it all happen, it would be hard to believe! *I'm so glad he could still be on his way. :) :)

Coopersburg, PA

Latitude: 40.5 Longitude: -75.4

Observed by: Charlotte
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