Greetings All:
On 25 June 2016 I completed the Post BBS. This route is entirely in Garza
County and runs from a point west of Post (at the Garza/Terry County line)
eastward to Post and then northeastward to the Salt Fork of the Brazos
River. It is about 50% agricultural land, a tiny bit of town, and 50%
canyon country and typically produces the most diverse BBS list for my
region.
In general, there seems to be good, solid drought recovery with good
numbers of Scaled Quail, Northern Bobwhite, Cattle Egret, Western Kingbird,
Cassin's Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, and Bullock's Oriole noted.
Critters seen were:
3 Outis Skippers
1 Common Sootywing
1 Orange Skipperling
1 Dotted Roadside Skipper
6 Checkered Whites
5 Orange Sulphurs
2 Southern Dogfaces
1 Dainty Sulphur
1 Great Purple Hairstreak
2 American Snouts
1 Hackberry Emperor
2 Phaon Crescents
1 Pearl Crescent
2 Common Buckeyes
1 Great Plains Toad
1 Eastern Collared Lizard
1 Greater Earless Lizard
1 Texas Horned Lizard
2 Coachwhips
2 Mallards
2 Blue-winged Teals
9 Scaled Quails
39 Northern Bobwhites
4 Wild Turkeys
26 Cattle Egrets
1 Green Heron
2 Black-crowned Night Herons
11 Turkey Vultures
14 Mississippi Kites
5 Swainson's Hawks
2 Black-necked Stilts
2 American Avocets
8 Killdeers
11 Rock Pigeons
21 Eurasian Collared Doves
50 White-winged Doves
75 Mourning Doves
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1 Greater Roadrunner
1 Burrowing Owl
8 Common Nighthawks
2 Chimney Swifts
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
2 Golden-fronted Woodpeckers
3 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers
3 American Kestrels
7 Ash-throated Flycatchers
90 Western Kingbirds
29 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
1 Loggerhead Shrike
3 Bell's Vireos
4 Blue Jays
2 Chihuahuan Ravens
16 Horned Larks
7 Purple Martins
4 Northern Rough-winged Swallows
276 Cliff Swallows
51 Cave Swallows
32 Barn Swallows
1 Verdin
2 Bewick's Wrens
1 Cactus Wren
4 American Robins
2 Curve-billed Thrashers
26 Northern Mockingbirds
10 European Starlings
16 Cassin's Sparrows
25 Lark Sparrows
3 Grasshopper Sparrows
4 Northern Cardinals
2 Pyrrhuloxias
5 Blue Grosbeaks
16 Painted Buntings
27 Dickcissels
30 Red-winged Blackbirds
13 Western Meadowlarks
9 Common Grackles
30 Great-tailed Grackles
1 female and 8 male Bronzed Cowbirds
9 Brown-headed Cowbirds
1 Orchard Oriole
14 Bullock's Orioles
4 House Finches
2 Lesser Goldfinches
36 House Sparrows
1 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
5 Desert Cottontails
1 North American Porcupine.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
