Great observations. On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 3:41 PM Nancy Cusumano <[email protected]> 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 those > were only the ones we could see. They were at all elevations including > soaring like a bird high above our heads and right down at ground level. We > kayaked in Little Sodus Bay, and they were crossing the bay where it is > narrow. > > We surmised they were hugging the lakeshore in order to head south at some > point, although the angle of the lake shore is SW anyway. It was magical. > I've never seen anything like it. > > Nancy > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 10:50 AM Marie P. Read <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 from the numerous clumps of goldenrod and aster in the fields and >> along the road. Others, though, I noted flying up high, helped on their way >> south by the NW breeze. >> During the same walk I witnessed a behavior I hadn’t seen before: a small >> flock of starlings fly-catching from a high dead tree, just like >> waxwings do. It occurred during a period of sunshine, which presumably had >> stimulated an upward flight of insects. (Didn’t see them chasing Monarchs, >> though.) The starlings swooped around high in the sky, sometimes hovering, >> then flying back to the tree to repeat. Once the clouds came over the >> starlings left. >> Ah…nature! >> Marie >> >> Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> >> -- >> *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* >> Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> >> Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> >> *Archives:* >> The Mail Archive >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> >> Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> >> BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> >> *Please submit your observations to eBird >> <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* >> -- >> > -- > *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> > BirdingOnThe.Net <http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
