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EventMonarch PEAK Migration
Date of Sighting10/11/00
CommentsSaw the first monarchs this afternoon that we would call true migrants. Three in ten minutes at the peninsula at the north end of the Lavaca Bay Causeway. Has been cold, wet ... these were facing into a northeast wind but the actual movement was closer to northwest to southeast. Central Texas has millions of migrating monarchs trying to pass thru the small of the funnel between the Texas coast (and probably some that have taken off across the Gulf) and Big Bend of west Texas ... and the weather has been terrible for them. Late hummingbirds have stacked up along the coast and some were reported in torpor from the cold.
LocationPort Lavaca
State/ProvinceTX
Latitude28.53
Longitude-96.68
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Observer's First NameHarlen E. and Altus
Observer's Last NameAschen
Teacher's First NameHarlen E. and Altus
Teacher's Last NameAschen
Grade7
SchoolVictoria Christian School
CityVictoria
State/ProvinceTX
CountryUSA

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