Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Marie P. Read
onarch migration and interesting starling behavior Great observations. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Nancy Cusumano mailto:nancycusuman...@gmail.com>> wrote: We were at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario this week, camping. We estimated there were thousands of Monarchs migrati

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Ingrid Bessette-Center
Great observations. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Nancy Cusumano wrote: > We were at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario this week, camping. > We estimated there were thousands of Monarchs migrating along the lake > shore. We counted an average of 12 monarchs every 10 minutes, and thos

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Nancy Cusumano
We were at Fair Haven Beach State Park on Lake Ontario this week, camping. We estimated there were thousands of Monarchs migrating along the lake shore. We counted an average of 12 monarchs every 10 minutes, and those were only the ones we could see. They were at all elevations including soaring li

[cayugabirds-l] Monarch migration and interesting starling behavior

2021-09-18 Thread Marie P. Read
On my walk up Mt Pleasant Rd just now, I greatly enjoyed a sizable movement of Monarch butterflies. I counted 20 in about an hour, which might not seem a lot but it’s more than I have seen on Mt Pleasant for years. Often they seemed to appear in small groups, as if they had just taken flight fro