[texbirds]
- From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:23:57 -0500
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 andatop 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.
May actually, thanks to arduous effort throughout the month and heavy rains at
the end of the month, kicked tushie. I spent fifty-one hours in the field, came
close to sweeping the amphibians of the region, and did well in all of the other
categories as well, spotting 36 species of butterfly, 12 species of
amphibian, 21
species of reptile, 172 species of bird, and 22 species of mammal.
This brought the totals for the year up to 51 species of butterfly (67%), 12
species of amphibian (120%), 25 species of reptile (100%), 254 species of bird
(85%), and 27 species of mammal (108%).
As mentioned in a separate and earlier post, Rich Kostecke and I are, however
briefly, tied (254 bird species to 254 bird species) in our regional
competition and I will continue to track and post that savaging separately.
Without further ado, the April list for the LEAS region - with new additions
*sked.
Outis Skipper
Funereal Duskywing
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywing
Least Skipper*
Sachem
Dusted Skipper*
Eufala Skipper*
Pipevine Swallowtail*
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Little Yellow*
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Great Purple Hairstreak*
Juniper Hairstreak
Soapberry Hairstreak*
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue*
Silvery Blue*
Reakirt's Blue
Ceraunus Blue*
American Snout*
Hackberry Emperor
Monarch
Queen*
Variegated Fritillary
Phaon Crescent
Dotted Checkerspot*
Common Buckeye
Red Admiral
Red Satyr*
Great Plains Toad
Texas Toad*
Woodhouse's Toad*
Green Toad*
Couch's Spadefoot*
Plains Spadefoot*
New Mexico Spadefoot*
Northern Cricket Frog*
Spotted Chorus Frog
Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad*
Plains Leopard Frog
American Bullfrog
Common Snapping Turtle
Red-eared Slider
Ornate Box Turtle*
Yellow Mud Turtle*
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle
Mediterranean Gecko*
Eastern Collared Lizard
Greater Earless Lizard
Eastern Fence Lizard
Texas Horned Lizard
Texas Spotted Whiptail
Six-lined Racerunner
Plain-belled Water Snake
Checkered Garter Snake*
Ring-necked Snake*
Western Hog-nosed Snake*
Coachwhip
Gopher Snake*
Common Kingsnake
Prairie Rattlesnake*
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Scaled Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron*
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron*
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Swainson's Hawk
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Snowy Plover*
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper*
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet*
Stilt Sandpiper*
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper*
Whtie-rumped Sandpiper*
Western Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper*
Pectoral Sandpiper*
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Black Tern*
Foster's Tern*
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo*
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk*
Common Poorwill
Chimney Swift*
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Olive-sided Flycatcher*
Western Wood Pewee
Willow Flycatcher*
Least Flycatcher*
Hammond's Flycatcher*
Gray Flycatcher*
Cordilleran Flycatcher*
Say's Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher*
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher*
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell's Vireo*
Cassin's Vireo*
Plumbeous Vireo
Warbling Vireo*
Red-eyed Vireo*
Blue Jay
Western Scrub Jay*
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Northern Rough-winged Swallow*
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Bewick's Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush*
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird*
Curve-billed Thrasher
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Worm-eating Warbler*
Northern Waterthrush*
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler*
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart*
Yellow Warbler*
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat*
Green-tailed Towhee*
Spotted Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow*
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Western Tanager*
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Black-headed Grosbeak*
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel*
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole*
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Spotted Ground Squirrel
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher*
Ord's Kangaroo Rat*
Plains Pocket Mouse*
North American Porcupine
House Mouse*
White-footed Deermouse*
Northern Pygmy Mouse*
Hispid Cotton Rat
Coyote
Gray Fox*
Bobcat*
Pronghorn*
White-tailed Deer
Mule Deer
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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