Date: 10/26/2021

Number: 1119

National Park Service: Amistad National Recreation Area. This October has been very warm and humid at this roost site we've been seeing monarchs at since Oct 5, but this might be the last morning of warm temps since a front should be moving in tonight. Will be interesting to see if they all clear out by tomorrow or the next day! Overnight temps were in the 70s, humidity at sunrise 83%, light East winds 10mph. Monarch numbers here have been going up and down since Oct. 5 as successive "waves" of monarchs pass through. They are roosting on the same 10-12 trees each morning, mostly huisache but also a large hackberry tree and two Mexican ash trees. I've named one group of huisache trees the 'secret garden' because it is very well protected from the weather and fairly closed canopy and hidden from view. There is abundant blooming cowpen daisy and whitebrush where the highest concentration of butterflies are roosting in the so-called 'secret garden'.

Del Rio, TX

Latitude: 29.5 Longitude: -100.9

Observed by: Sarah
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