| Comments | Over the past few days in Toronto, I have seen many monarchs moving through Canada's largest city - all heading southward, soaring high down our major streets and natural corridors such as river valleys.I paced out an 80 foot area (north and south)
and twice measured the number of monarchs that passed east to west through this small area for a one minute period. My counts were 20 and 22 monarchs respectfully. The day was sunny, temperature about 70 F., winds out of the west. Some stands of goldenrod sheltered from the wind by trees would often contain 20 to 30 monarchs. In short, there were many thousands of monarchs on the Spit today. In two hours with little effort, I captured 250 monarchs to tag later.
Saturday (9/18/99) the masses of monarchs were gone. After 2 1/2
hours of walking, I was only able to find 86 monarchs - all in excellent
condition with plump abdomens. No sign whatsoever of eggs or larva.
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