| Comments | As we were driving home from school at five this afternoon, we had a monarch come drifting over the van at about twelve feet, right out of the rising moon and heading towards the setting sun (ENE to WSW?) ... US87, ifteen miles east of Victoria. It was wig-wagging to adjust its flight, as a turkey vulture would, into the light northwest breeze ... never saw a wing beat. First of the hawk watches, Hornsby Bend near Austin, reported "... a surprising number of Monarch butterflies" in their report for October 14th. The hawk watch we key on to our northeast, Smith Point between Houston and Galveston, has yet to include monarchs in their reports ... the same for the Corpus Christi hawk watch to the south of us. We have yet to see more than one monarch trying to cross Lavaca Bay from the northeast ... another week. |
