Date: 10/05/2024

Number: 3

Attended Point Pelee National Park tip area approximately one hour before 19:00 sunset. One visitor reported seeing a monarch head out over the lake at approximately 17:30. Another visitor reported seeing a Monarch alight in a Cottonwood tree on the west path. I observed one flutter in from the west side near the Carolinian Canada sign. It tried a few trees, including a Cottonwood and a Hackberry along the west path before heading to the interior forest area of the tip. We did not see where it alighted.
According to the weather app on my phone conditions at Point Pelee at 18:00: 18°C with the windchill of 17°C,
winds ESE at 14 km/h with gusts up to 17 km/h, humidity 54%, dewpoint 9°C, barometric pressure 102 kPa and falling.
With winds out of the east all day, I wasn’t anticipating much. However, winds are expected to change to the southwest tomorrow, so Sunday may bring Monarchs to Point Pelee if they are on the move. However, reports from east of here at Rosetta McLain Gardens in Scarborough are that numbers are slowing down.
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Point Pelee National Park, ON

Latitude: 41.9 Longitude: -82.5

Observed by: Laura
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