Her Wild Life Expeditions

Name: Her Wild Life Expeditions
Address: 400 W South Boulder Road Ste 2500, Lafayette, CO, 80026, US
Telephone: +18889276656

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Wildlife Expeditions Led by Women for Women.

We are a welcoming space for wildlife-loving women to embark on solo or group trips into authentic, unforgettable adventures that ignite the explorer in all of us.

10/24/2026

Breakfast in Yellowstone: moose edition. Wait for it.....

10/21/2026

Scopes up, voices low.

This grizzly is working to cover an elk carcass. Covering it hides the meal from wolves, other bears and scavengers who would happily take it. Right now, bears are in hyperphagia, the fall stretch when they eat nearly around the clock to build the fat they need to survive winter. Every calorie counts, and they defend what they find.

This is the Yellowstone food chain at work, and it’s one of the reasons we timed this trip for late October.

We're live from Yellowstone with our Her Wild Life group this week.

10/18/2026

And the owl? Yes, a great horned owl was roosting in that cottonwood grove, too.

We stopped hoping to find one. On the prairie, stands of trees are your best bet. We found the owl. And trees with resting monarchs. An unexpected surprise!

This is how a lot of our best days go.

Tomorrow we head to Yellowstone. We’ll be searching for plenty, and we’ll be waiting for whatever shows up.

10/15/2026

We stopped at this cottonwood grove in southeast Colorado last weekend because it looked like a good place for an owl.

Then the leaves started to take flight. Not leaves. Monarchs.

Even with all that orange, black and white, we had to look hard to find them. They were resting in the cottonwoods, saving their energy for the next leg of a journey to the mountains of central Mexico, more than 2,000 miles away.

That’s the thing about wildlife. You go looking for one thing and the day hands you another.

We’ll be in those Mexican forests February 1-6, 2027, waiting for them.

10/12/2026

Some of this fall’s monarchs are wearing tiny backpacks. And one of them just flew through Colorado.

Through Project Monarch, researchers are fitting monarchs with solar-powered trackers that weigh about 60 milligrams, roughly the weight of a grain of rice. The tags can be picked up by everyday smartphones as the butterflies pass by, so for the first time scientists can follow individual monarchs along their migration almost in real time.

The Monarch Joint Venture and its partners tagged around 150 monarchs this fall in Minnesota, Nebraska and Indiana. A few of their stories:

🦋 A monarch tagged near the Twin Cities angled west through Nebraska, looped through northeastern Colorado, then headed south through eastern Colorado. As of early October, she was one of the southernmost tagged monarchs, close to the Mexican border.

🦋 Many monarchs tagged in Fergus Falls, Minnesota took a route through eastern Colorado too.

That matches what we’ve been seeing here in Colorado over the last few weeks.

You can follow these tagged monarchs yourself in the free Project Monarch app: https://projectmonarch.org/app

In January and February, we’ll be waiting for them in the oyamel forests of Mexico. Our January Monarchs of Mexico departure is sold out, and our new February 1–6, 2027 session is filling quickly. Details and booking: https://herwildlifeexpeditions.com

— Sheridan, Founder, Her Wild Life Expeditions

Source: Monarch Joint Venture ()

10/08/2026

Our friend Julie Price was out at Barr Lake State Park last weekend when something small crossed the water in front of her. She couldn't tell what it was. It wasn't until she zoomed in later that she realized it was a single monarch butterfly, flying across all that space.

Her words stayed with us. "Something about this tiny little creature crossing that huge lake gave me an incredible sense of perspective."

That butterfly weighs less than a paperclip. It has never made this trip before. It has no map and no guide, and it's heading for a mountain forest in central Mexico, more than 2,000 miles away. It doesn't turn around at the water's edge. It just keeps going.

We spend our January and February days in those forests, standing where that journey ends. It's the reason we keep going back.

Our January Monarchs of Mexico expedition sold out, so we've added a second departure, February 1–6, 2027. Spots are going fast. 🦋

10/02/2026

Last weekend, in three days in southeast Colorado, I saw more monarch butterflies than I've seen in the last 30 years here combined.

Not an exaggeration. And what made those sightings even better. Knowing those individuals are fueling up for their long flight south to Mexico.

Those numbers match late summer observations from up north. Whatever is happening this year, it's big!

Here's the best news: our January Monarchs of Mexico expedition just sold out. So we're adding a second session — February 1–6, 2027. Registrations opens next week. Join us! It'll wow you for sure!🦋

09/18/2026

Fresh numbers just in, and they're stunning.

At Hawk Ridge in Duluth, Minnesota — a site that typically counts around 10 monarchs on a strong day — observers this week watched that number climb into the 300s and even over 400, as one longtime counter described butterflies pouring down from Canada at a pretty good clip. Further east, the Detroit River Hawk Watch team logged 598 monarchs in a single 7.75-hour count on September 13.

This isn't a quiet year. This is one of the biggest pushes migration-watchers have seen in a long time. Every one of those butterflies is on the same route our January travelers fly to Mexico to meet at the finish line, in the oyamel forests where the migration ends.

The numbers heading south this fall make it hard to imagine what will be waiting in the sanctuaries by January.

1 spot left! Don't watch this one from the sidelines.

09/11/2026

This is where they're going.

High in the mountains of central Mexico, at 9,000 to 11,000 feet, oyamel fir forests hold one of the greatest wildlife spectacles on the planet.

Our Monarchs of Mexico expedition is a six-day journey into these forests. Multiple sanctuary visits, horseback and forest hikes, mountain villages, and the kind of sisterhood that forms fast when you share experiences like these.

1 spot left for this January.

09/09/2026

At night when monarch butterflies migrate, something remarkable happens.

They cluster together in trees, sometimes just a handful, sometimes more. Safety in numbers before they scatter again at sunrise.

The first roosts of this season are being reported along their migration path. In the weeks ahead, that same behavior will move south, through the Plains, all the way to central Mexico.

By January, those roosts become something else entirely — entire fir trees so covered in monarchs that their branches bend from the weight. You can see it firsthand in January.

1 spot left for our 2027 Her Wild Life: Monarchs of Mexico trip. 🦋

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400 W South Boulder Road Ste 2500
Lafayette, CO
80026

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+18889276656

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https://herwildlifeexpeditions.com/

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