Mid-Atlantic Gardening: MIGRATION ON! Plant it and They Will Come part 5, 1 by coleup

coleup wrote:
Today's report from Cape May New Jersey

Date: 10/20/2014 Location: Cape May Point,NJ

Number Sighted: 500
Comments: Our team was excited to find some monarch roosts tonight!!! We located one with approximately 200 butterflies and a second with around 300. Our census total for today was 270 monarchs an hour.

Saw three Monarch migrators this afternoon on my paper route! And should be many more tomorrow as the winds and temps are forecast to be favorable. Oh my goodness how incredible it would be to follow a cloud of them from Cape May to the Chesapeake! and beyond.

I am very thankful for everyone who has taken part this year and hope all of the tagging and reporting of 'sightings' will help us all plot out safe passages for these magnificent magical migrators! If you see a 'tagged' Monarch (visible when wings closed) try very hard to take a pic and read and report the unique ID.