With the popularity of releasing monarchs at events, we can't be sure of the origin of this one. I rather doubt this is a natural monarch given the temperatures the regions has had . Kent ____________________________ Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies PO Box 420 | Norwich, Vermont 05055 802.649.1431 x2 [image: VCE Logo] <http://www.vtecostudies.org/> Visit Our Pages: [image: Facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vermont-Center-for-Ecostudies/56930912454> [image: YouTube] <http://www.youtube.com/user/VCE14> [image: Blogger]<http://vtecostudies.blogspot.com/> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Alan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > While on my fitness walk into and through the town of Essex Junctioin, > Chittenden County, today, I spotted a southbound Monarch. The time of day > was 1315. The location was 25 or so feet off Vermont highway 2A about 30 > yards uphill and to the south of the Winooski River shore. > This is, by far, my personal latest for Monarch. My previous late-date, > about 30 miles south of the city of Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, was Nov. > 7. > > -- > For the wild... > Alan Clark Gregory > Lt Col USAF, Ret. > Williston VT >