Butterflies

[Bird Brain]

This morning (11am) at Maplewood Park:

Monarch x 1

Maplewood Park:  East side of Glen Erin Dr., just North of Aquitaine Ave.

[Howieh]

Found this while looking for 2010 Point Pelee fall monarch migration reports (if anyone knows how to get them please tell me!)

http://www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/n ... pace.shtml

Btw, according to a post on ONT Butterflies monarchs HAVE started gathering at PP.

[Howieh]

Spent about an hour in the gardens south of the Grenadier Restaurant on Sunday afternoon (Aug 29). Dozens of monarchs, painted ladies, american ladies and red admirals but not much else. Many people, myself included, are of the opinion that the numbers of monarchs are down from last year but now I'm not so sure. I'm now seeing several pass over my house every day and I had a report of several hundred(!) a few days ago in the Urquhart Butterfly Garden in Dundas.

I've been on the spit a few times lately and have seen several dozen monarchs each time; expect the numbers to increase when the New England Asters are in full bloom (in about two weeks?). Still quite a few fresh viceroys, black swallowtails and sulphurs and the monarchs are still NOT feeding on the goldenrod. I also saw several pairs of mating monarchs and I hope to pick up a few milkweed caterpillars in mid September.

[JW Mills]

About a dozen Monarchs spotted at James Gardens Tuesday afternoon.

[JW Mills]

At Col. Sam Smith on Thursday afternoon:
Roughly twenty Cabbage Whites, ten Monarchs and two Black Swallowtails.

[GStuart]

Found this while looking for 2010 Point Pelee fall monarch migration reports (if anyone knows how to get them please tell me!)

We will be
Tweeting Monarch numbers throughout September, starting on the evening of
the 7th. (www.twitter.com/PointPeleeNP, or check out our web page -
www.parkscanada.gc.ca/pelee)

Hope that helps.

[Howieh]

I also got this from the butterfly site but thanks anyway. I'd really like to get there while the 'other' swallowtails (giant and spicebush) are still around but it probably won't work out.

[ravynne40]

There were tons of monarchs today at Sam Smith Park and lots of dragonflies too!

[Howieh]

Check this out, they should be headed this way in droves!

http://groups.google.ca/group/onbutterf ... 07e?hl=en#

[ravynne40]

There were hundreds of monarchs in Marie Curtis Park on Wednesday afternoon, there also was a gentleman who was tagging them, he showed me how they tagged them and also showed me how to tell the difference between male and females
It was very cool and so where the monarchs ..they were everywhere, I loved it~

Irene

[Bluffs Birder]

It's been crazy steady with Monarch butterflies everywhere the last few days at the Rosetta McClain Gardens Hawk Watch, probably close to 100 passing by every hour!!!  A good friend informed me that there were hundreds staging in the trees at Ashbridge's Bay just beyond the Yacht Club this morning.  Would've loved to have gone down to see them if it wasn't such an incredible day for hawks.

Walter

[JW Mills]

About 100+  Monarchs at Humber Bay East and roughly half that at Sam Smith today (Sept 10).