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Information about tagging Monarchs. Find your latitude at the link listed, then look for your latitude below. My latitude is 35. It shows my midpoint peak to be Oct. 2nd., and the brunt of migration to be around Sept. 24th to Oct. 6th in my latitude. Be aware that these are "rough" gestimates. I could start tagging around Sept. 24th. Remember that the Monarchs migrate in waves with weather fronts- northerly fronts. Watch the weather around the time of your peak for them to talk about northerly fronts coming in with a cool down. If the weather is still quite warm at that time, they will still be intersted in mating, and not interested into going into diapause, and migrating. Last year, I had a nice wave of about 50 in my yard on Oct. 8th. Then, I had a wonderful wave of over 200 stop by on Oct. 13th. So, they were later than my Oct. 6th guideline. Since you are quite a bit north of me, your guideline may be earlier. I usually have some of my own to release when I tag. When they are in the migrating mode, they are very intent on nectaring, and the wild ones are pretty easy to walk up to and net, or pick up by hand, and tag. So, I do both. I have tagged 200 the last couple of years. This spring was the 1st time that my tags were found in Mexico. One was tagged on Oct. 4th, and the other was tagged on Oct. 11th. So, that is when I plan to do most of my tagging. Hope that helps. :) Here is a link that might be useful: Tagging Monarch peak dates

Hi! Many of you are familiar with Monarch Watch, an educational outreach program based at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, so I wanted to make sure you knew about our annual Open House & Plant Fundraiser that will be on Saturday, May 13th this year. Complete details are available at http://www.monarchwatch.org/openhouse/ Anything you can do to help publicize this public event will be greatly appreciated - hope to see many of you there! :-) -Jim Here is a link that might be useful: Monarch Watch Open House

I am very much in favor of the wind farm. I understand that a lot of the opponents are worried about the wildlife of the area (and if something like zebra-striping would prevent needless bird fatalities, then I think that route should be explored). Unfortunately, I think the majority of people are afraid of what the end product will look like. It's turning into something of a "not in my backyard" issue. There wouldn't be as much opposition to the project if it were planned for New Bedford. A lot of the opponents still want their power to be eco-friendly and clean but they don't want to look at it. This stuff can't magically appear - we need to change our minds about what beauty is. Wind farms, solar energy and (yes, I'll say it) hydrogen power needs to proliferate regardless of appearance, and someone has to set precedent. I think this project should be the first of many. Let's face it: having a wind farm on a coastline is better than not having a coastline at all.