Date: 10/09/1998

Number: 1

Our 5th period ESL class went outside today and counted Monarchs flying through the campus. During the 50 minute class period, 5 of us counted 4,774 butterflies. They are everywhere! It's impossible to count all of them. Most of them are small (young) and are flying in groups of from 3 or 4 to 20 or more. Our school is about 15 miles south of Austin and is in a rural area. On Monday, another teacher reported to me that she had seen about 500 between Austin and San Marcos(26 miles) and on Tuesday, I saw twice that many in the same distance. The students doing the counting today was Adriana Martinez, Alejandro Chavez, Sonia Saavedra, and Imelda Rosales.

Buda, TX

Latitude: 30.1 Longitude: -97.9

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