Date: 09/14/2022

Number: 1000

I was informed by my wife that Wendy Park had thousands of Monarchs congregating there and to go that day if I wanted to see them as the morning fog was lifting. Overnight temp was 59 degrees and there was little wind and it was partly cloudy at 11:10 am when I got to the park for 20 mins. There was a woodland gathering of people observing the monarchs on the southeast side of an eastern cottonwood tree an scattered bunches with a little movement and no obvious nectar sights nearby? I counted 20 on one branch and 1/4 of the tree had loose covering for the roosting butterflies! I needed a telephoto camera and took half a dozen pix with my IPhone 11 and cropped severely to get pix of some of the monarchs outline. I wish that I could post more pix of the Monarchs on this site? I was told that the Monachs would travel next to Lakewood park 3 to 4 miles east soon on their fall migration and to go that day to see them. There were 5 or 6 of them flying individually on my 4 mile car travel from my home to the park and hundreds of them in the branches along the south central shore of Lake Erie.

Cleveland, OH

Latitude: 41.5 Longitude: -81.7

Observed by: Richard
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