[leasbirds] The October Report for the 2014 Game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:46:42 -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.

October was about as good as can be expected in terms of
building a big list, given at all the easy stuff had been
picked off earlier in the year, but I managed to add a
butterfly and a handful of birds to the totals.  All in all
I saw 37 species of butterfly, 1 species of amphibian, 9
species of reptile, 107 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%, 286 species of bird (95%), and 39 species
of mammal (156%)for the year.

Evidently, Rich Kostecke squeaked Red-breasted Merganser onto
his list on the 31st, snagging a last minute tie for our
region:region contest with both of us at 286 birds at the end
of the month.  We will have to see what we can do during the
two months remaining in the year.

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

Funereal Duskywings
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywings
Common Sootywings
Fiery Skipper
Sachem
Nysa Roadside Skipper
Eufala Skipper
Pipevine Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Cloudless Sulphur
Large Orange Sulphur*
Little Yellow
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairsteak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
Reakirt's Blue
American Snout
Monarch
Queen
Gulf Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Bordered Patch
Phaon Crescent
Pearl Crescent
Common Buckeye
Question Mark
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Lady
Goatweed Leafwing

American Bullfrog

Red-eared Slider
Mediterranean Gecko
Texas Horned Lizard
Checkered Garter Snake
Western Hog-nosed Snake
Gopher Snake
Eastern Glossy Snake
Prairie Rattlesnake
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
American Avocet
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Poorwill
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Red-naped Sapsucker*
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Western Wood Pewee
Gray Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Yellow-throated Vireo*
Blue Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Barn Swallows
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch*
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Bewick's Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kingelt
Swainson's Thrush
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler*
Chestnut-sided Warbler*
Blackpoll Warbler*
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Green-tailed Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Western Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Ord's Kangaroo Rat
Gray Fox
White-tailed Deer
Mule Deer

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[leasbirds] The October Report for the 2014 Game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

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