"First Monarch Sightings" Requested for Journey North

[David MacDonald]

As per the note below, Journey North 2001 would again appreciate hearing
from you with regard to your first sighting of a migrating monarch
butterfly, monarch eggs or larva or other observations. Please report
directly to Journey North at: www.learner.org/jnorth. I would appreciate
hearing about Canadian sightings as well.

Thank you

Don Davis
Toronto, ON
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PLEASE SUPPORT JOURNEY NORTH - SPRING 2001

Journey North is an outstanding internet-based science program that
monitors and documents the arrival of spring as it sweeps across North
America. This award-winning program is utilized by over 4000 classrooms
in Canada and the United States.  Students can contribute data, download
information and make predictions, and even share information with other
schools in Canada or the United States. You can support this program by
sharing your "first" sightings of certain target species and phenomenon.
You can register with the program, and report your sightings directly to
Journey North (www.learner.org/jnorth).  Alternately, F.O.N. Life Member
Don Davis, who has supported this program since its inception, would be
pleased to forward your sightings to Journey North .  Don can be reached
at: donald.davis at utoronto.ca. Please let your colleagues and local
schools know about this program.  Migration update reports are issued
regularly for target species.

Barn Swallow (First sighted)
Hummingbird (Feeder up)
Hummingbird (FIRST sighted)
Loon (FIRST sighted)
Oriole (Feeder up)
Oriole (FIRST sighted)
Oriole (FIRST nest-building)
Red-winged blackbird  (FIRST sighted)
Robin (First HEARD Singing)
Robin (First SEEN)
Robin (OTHER observations

Monarch Adult (FIRST sighted)
Monarch Larva (FIRST sighted)
Monarch Egg (FIRST sighted)
Monarch (OTHER observations)

Earthworm (FIRST sighted)
Frog  (First HEARD singing)
Tulips PLANTED
Tulips EMERGED
Tulips BLOOMED

Ice-out
Leaf Out (Any Species)
Maple Syrup (FIRST Sap Run)
Other Signs of Spring



 
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