[leasbirds] The November report for this year's game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:34:14 -0600
Greetings All

This year's game, titled 'A Slightly Bigger Patch' is to see
how many species of butterfly, amphibian, reptile, bird, and
mammal I can find in my home region.

The LEAS region includes fifteen counties (Bailey, Lamb,
Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby,
Dickens, Yoakum,Terry, Lynn, Garza, and Kent) and, with
portions of the region below and atop the Caprock Escarpment,
offers a fairly wide variety of habitats.  My goals for the
year are 75 species of butterfly, 10 species of amphibian,
25 species of reptile, 300 species of bird, and 25 species of
mammal.

November was about as good as can be expected in terms of
building a big list, but I only managed to add species to
one category: ten new birds.  All in allI saw 24 species of
butterfly, 2 species of amphibian, 4 species of reptile, 122
species of bird, and 8 species of mammal during the month,
bringing my totals to 79 species of butterfly (105%), 13
species of amphibian (130%), 31 species of reptile (124%),
296 species of bird (99%), and 39 species of mammal (156%)
for the year.

Without further ado, the list for October with the new stuff
*sked.

Common Checkered Skipper
Orange Skipperling
Fiery Skipper
Sachem
Eufala Skipper
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
American Snout
Hackberry Emperor
Monarch
Queen
Variegated Fritillary
Pearl Crescent
Question Mark
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Lady

Spotted Chorus Frog
Plains Leopard Frog

Red-eared Slider
Mediterranean Gecko
Checkered Garter Snake
Prairie Rattlesnake

Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup*
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe*
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe*
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Osprey
Bald Eagle*
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Common Crane*
Sandhill Crane
American Avocet
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull*
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis's Woodpecker*
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Red-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Western Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Chestnut-collared Longspur
McCown's Longspur
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler*
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Cassin's Finch*
Red Crossbill*
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Nine-banded Armadillo
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
House Mouse
Coyote
White-tailed Deer
Mule Deer

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[leasbirds] The November report for this year's game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

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