Still Waiting

Thursday evening update: As reported earlier, there were a good number of monarchs around today, the most we have seen so far this season, but it did not blossom into a major arrival event. The biggest numbers were seen at Cape May Point State Park, nectarine on the native sunflowers that are in peak bloom right now (Helianthus giganteus). The show was great there, especially in the morning and early afternoon, but big monarch numbers were not seen elsewhere around Cape May Point. We saw reports of many monarchs at East Point, just one county north of us on the shores of Delaware Bay. We keep thinking that a big arrival is imminent, but we don't know if it will happen tomorrow, this weekend, or maybe not for a while longer.