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Today was warm and humid in the Valley and good for eclosions. This afternoon I walked our milkweed field and chased out 29 adult Monarchs. What an experience! This is the most ever. Other surveys I have done had 19 and 22, that was a week or so ago. I try not to double count and most of the butterflies are poor fliers and land soon after taking off ... indication of recent emergence from the chrysalis. Today, we released two Monarchs from ones we raised and have now surpassed the 175 raised and released mark, the most successful year so far. We are nearing the end of our supply of chrysalis. There are still caterpillars in the milkweed but at this point we leave them to fend for themselves. It is getting late for migration but we usually have Monarches into October. I just looked at Overnight Roosts Map on Journey North for the Fall Migration 2017. Observers in the upper midwest have seen roost of hundreds and thousands of Monarchs in migration. This is encouraging. http://learner.org/jnorth/maps/monarch_roosts_fall2017.html Larry P.S. On another note, I saw my first Great Horned Owl in awhile yesterday while on a bike ride along the Kingsport-Weston railbed with friends. It sat and watched us watch it. It had its back to us but its eyes were straight toward us. When we moved on, it flew and I noted how much bigger it looked in flight. -- Larry Bogan <larry@bogan.ca> Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia
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