Highlights: A Great Show for the Great Lakes
The north wind blows after a cold front passes, and the strong August 29th system set monarchs sailing in the Great Lakes region. Take a close look at Lake Erie on the migration maps this week. Not a monarch or a roost had been reported on Erie's south shore before the front passed. Then suddenly this:

8/30/07 Willoughby, OH (41 N, -81 W)
"At 7:30pm I started spotting six or seven monarchs per minute in my backyard, and for the next 30 minutes an increasing number showed up -- thousands landing on branches of trees in my yard and throughout my neighborhood!"

8/31/07 Cleveland, OH (41 N, -81 W)
"This morning my daughter and I saw over 50 monarchs hanging in our maple tree at 6:30am just as the sun was rising."

8/31/07 Lakewood, OH (41 N, -81 W)
"We are in Lakewood, Oh. South shore of Lake Erie. Hundreds of Monarchs have begun roosting in the trees in our backyard. Really COOL!!!!!"

9/1/07 Cleveland, OH (41 N, -81 W)
"Hi, I live in Cleveland, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie. We have many huge oak trees in our front yard. Within the last couple of days, September 1st-2nd 2007 , there were HUNDREDS if not thousands of Monarchs in our oak trees hanging onto the leaves and flying all around the yard. It was a wonderful sight to behold."

9/2/07 Vermillion, OH(41 N, -82 W)
"We are right on the shore of Lake Erie and we assume they are resting after crossing the lake."