Date: 11/02/2022

Number: 1

This is a monarch release success story! "Harry" has been with us for 12 days and we decided to release him today at this Audubon center along Long Island Sound because it was 70o and will be 50o to 70o for the next 4 days. We were SO happy when he flew out of his box headed South so vigorously and so high that we lost sight of him in 4 seconds! We now feel he will make it to the NJ shore where hopefully there are more flowers than here where we have nothing left, not even asters!
This monarch hatched in a trash can in Seacoast NH Oct 22, 200 miles North of here and was kept in a heated sunroom for the next 3 frosty nights of 32o. We fed him juicy juice and honey water on cotton balls, tried every flower we could find from the garden and the store, drove him to CT where we kept him in a box and he got to feed on the last butterfly bush flowers (3). He didn't want to fly away one nice day in NH so we were surprised he flew so vigorously when we released him today.
Bon voyage, Harry!

Stratford, CT

Latitude: 41.2 Longitude: -73.1

Observed by: Elizabeth
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