Students from 6 schools in the U.S and Mexico participated in a pilot project focusing on the topic of animal migration. Cape May. Daily numbers from our census were relayed to students for interpretation and discussion. Vince confirmed that monarchs do indeed cross the Bay and sometimes in large numbers. On September 23 Vince recorded 134 Monarchs on his round trip census. Finally, we continued our all important census.
Results are in the following chart.
Spring brought a handful of very early Monarch reports. In southern New Jersey Pat Sutton documented various sightings between April 11 and April 21 including 15 Monarchs seen in the Wildwood marshes on the 18th. And on September 19th we set a new record for a single day Monarchs count on our census runs. And we had begun to notice something special about September 19th. May each fall.