Date: 09/03/1997

Number: 1

Last night Sept 3 was the first night we noticed monarchs roosting in our trees. There were about 100 or so . We also saw them tonight as well. The last two days its been breezy and nice weather.

Reporting later, on September 7th:
We have about the same number roosting since the third. I have noticed more monarchs flying in a southern direction.
Last year we had the most monarchs right when our asters were all in bloom. This year with our first sighting of roosting monarchs we only have part of a aster plant
flowering. We first noticed them roosting 4 yrs ago.4 yrs ago we had the most .
There were 1000 of them at least. Since that time they have been in the
100s. Last year they stayed 4 to 5 days.

malvern, IA

Latitude: 41 Longitude: -95.6

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