Date: 09/03/1999

Number: 1

While birding Lake Oologah OK, traveling 100miles that day, I counted nine Monarch butterflies aloft.In Talala-the boat ramp,west side of lake, a large buttonbush in bloom lakeside was covered with butterflies. Most of them large Tiger Swallowtails, black Swallowtails with blue hindwing (small orange area)and three Monarchs, total 18-20. Tiny butterflies flitted among black and yellow bumblebees, all sipping nectar.These 12 Monarchs beat the week before when two were seen at Hummer feeder site (15-17 feeders) in Vinita OK.

Talala, OK

Latitude: 36.6 Longitude: -95.7

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