| Comments | A wonderful day. A cold front was passing through the state, and by late afternoon, migrating monarchs were riding and floating on the wind on their southerly journey. In 45 minutes--from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.--150 monarchs were counted high in the sky flying over our butterfly garden in Altoona, Iowa. They came so fast that the count certainly was conservative. Some of the monarchs could be seen with the naked eye, but this was a day when binoculars were needed to experience the magnitude of the event. Later, at the end of the day, monarchs were flying among the flowers in the garden. |
