| Comments | After Saturday night's cold front, Jim Gilbert reports that monarchs in Minnesota are really traveling. He expects this week to be the peak migration in Minnesota. During one count on Sunday, 5 monarchs per minute traveled through his yard in Waconia. On Monday he also observed numerous monarchs, all crossing the road in a southerly direction, when he drove
from Waconia to St. Peter, MN and back. (He noted that even though the wind had shifted from northerly on Sunday to southerly on Monday, the migration was still strong on Monday.) Prior to Sunday's cold front, he'd see monarchs regularly on the wing, but usually only single butterflies at one time. What's more, unto Sunday they were not traveling in a clear, southerly direction---but often eastward, westward and even northward |
