Monday, September 11, 2017

More Movement for the Monarch Migration Here

The big push has now gone through - for the fall Monarch Butterfly migration...they're still trickling through but not in the high numbers of a week back.  We had over a hundred at our highest one evening and morning.  This was nothing like 15 years ago when that number was over a thousand and more, but it is a slight improvement over just a couple years ago when a dozen was not attainable.
 
 
 Monarchs in the prairie pasture goldenrod here
Photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison
 
 Monarch in the prairie pasture New England Aster here
Photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison
 
 Monarchs resting on the Gray-headed Coneflower seed heads
in the prairie pasture here
Photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison
 
 Monarchs roosting in the grove here
Photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison
 
 Monarchs roosting in the grove here
Photograph - © Bruce A. Morrison
 
Now its up to the rest of their journey and the winter ahead in Mexico...I wish them the best of luck!