Date: 05/18/2001

Number: 1

******MONARCHS IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN********
I just returned from two days of "birding" with 30 sixth graders in this quadrant of the state. We observed 4 brightly colored monarch at The Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Refuge (Horicon WI) and as we birded the dikes the kids got to observe not only the birds but a female laying eggs along the same dike. I counted ten eggs (sometimes two to the same plant and some on the UPPERSIDE of the leaves). She continued to lay but WE went back to the birdwatching. Continuing over to the INTERNATIONAL CRANE FNDTN. in Baraboo Wisconsin, we sighted three more monarchs with one showing faded wings and the others as brightly colored as the previous HORICON sighting. Assume that the brighter ones are a second generation moving into our state from points south, and the females (As at the Horicon Marsh) are "doing their thing". GROWTH: Noted that the milkweed advancing toward the center of the state got taller the further we moved to the West: Hori

Mequon, WI

Latitude: 43.2 Longitude: -88

Observed by: Steve
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