~ Life As I See it ~
migration
For the pass several weeks I have been regularly checking the Monarch Monitoring Project website. Here there is a daily update of the current counts of the migrating butterflies. Over the last several days the numbers have been high with reports of “a river of wings” over the dunes. I could not wait to make my return visit. I rounded up a few friends to make the hour trip. I had promised we would see more butterflies than we could count.
The sky was overcast and rain was predicted for late this afternoon. I had concerns, but a Phriend had always encouraged me to think happy thoughts as this would hold the rain off and the butterflies would be plentiful, fingers crossed.
As we neared the location the sky opened and buckets of rain poured down. Still thinking happy thoughts, we decided on stopping for lunch before approaching the dunes. While dinning my friends and I kept positive thoughts in mind and I even started to flap my arms in a flying motion. Success! The rain stopped!
We arrived at the dunes and ran to the top. We saw a butterfly, we headed out to the gardens and started counting on 4 hands the number we saw. It was 18 to be exact. Reports on the monitoring site; due to the rain migration was at a stop, today the numbers were the lowest they have been in two weeks!
submitted to ODC/ topic ~ relax
this fellow is relaxing and feeding before the 2000 mile flight to Mexico
migration
For the pass several weeks I have been regularly checking the Monarch Monitoring Project website. Here there is a daily update of the current counts of the migrating butterflies. Over the last several days the numbers have been high with reports of “a river of wings” over the dunes. I could not wait to make my return visit. I rounded up a few friends to make the hour trip. I had promised we would see more butterflies than we could count.
The sky was overcast and rain was predicted for late this afternoon. I had concerns, but a Phriend had always encouraged me to think happy thoughts as this would hold the rain off and the butterflies would be plentiful, fingers crossed.
As we neared the location the sky opened and buckets of rain poured down. Still thinking happy thoughts, we decided on stopping for lunch before approaching the dunes. While dinning my friends and I kept positive thoughts in mind and I even started to flap my arms in a flying motion. Success! The rain stopped!
We arrived at the dunes and ran to the top. We saw a butterfly, we headed out to the gardens and started counting on 4 hands the number we saw. It was 18 to be exact. Reports on the monitoring site; due to the rain migration was at a stop, today the numbers were the lowest they have been in two weeks!
submitted to ODC/ topic ~ relax
this fellow is relaxing and feeding before the 2000 mile flight to Mexico