Monarchs
piper casel
pipercasel at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 3 11:11:30 EDT 2004
10/2/04
Don't see too many
monarchs in the Mojave,
but yesterday down in LA...
there was one crossing the
Santa Monica Freeway (which
fortunately was at a standstill),
heading toward Mexico.
--- Lemmon <lemmon at snet.net> wrote:
> 10/2/04
>
> Tagged 5 monarchs at Light House Point Park in New
> Haven and 7 Monarchs at Hammonassett State Park in
> Madison today. Also saw 2 Fiery Skippers, 2 Am
> Ladies and a Cloudless Sulphur at Light House in the
> butterfly garden.
>
> The Monarchs at Hammo were coming thru and we saw a
> lot more than we were able to net. They seem to
> gravitate to the Black Pines at the southern edge of
> the butterfly garden and were roosting in the pines
> before taking off again. Wind was from the E-SE.
>
> Also at Hammo was a really large flock of Tree
> Swallows, est to be around 2000, swirling around in
> a large mass before spreading out in the park. This
> was around 3:30 PM.
>
> Gary & Carol Lemmon
>
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