[leasbirds] The 2014 Game - March in The LEAS Region

From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:17:21 -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 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.  Due to
ongoing and brutal drought, March was not the big improvement over February
that I had hoped but I did get out and about a bit, found a few new spots
in what I thought was a well-covered patch, and added a few critters.  All
in all, I spotted 14 species of butterfly, 1 species of amphibian, 4
species of reptile, 138 species of bird, and 9 species of mammal during the
month bringing the year's total up to 15 species of butterfly (20%), 2
species of amphibian (20%), 4 species of reptile (16%), 167 species of bird
(56%), and 14 species of mammal (56%).

As mentioned in a separate and earlier post, Rich Kostecke is still
whupping my butt (196 bird species to 167 bird species) in our regional
competition and I will continue to track and post that savaging
separately.  Without further ado, the March list for the LEAS region - with
new additions *sked.

Common Checkered Skipper
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface*
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Variegated Fritillary*
Question Mark
Mourning Cloak
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
Goatweed Leafwing*

American Bullfrog

Common Snapping Turtle*
Red-eared Slider
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle*
Eastern Fence Lizard*

Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Scaled Quail*
Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret*
Green Heron*
Black-crowned Night Heron
Turkey Vulture*
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk*
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Sora*
Common Gallinule*
American Coots
Sandhill Crane
Black-necked Stilt*
American Avocet*
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs*
Long-billed Curlew*
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher*
Bonaparte's Gull*
Franklin's Gull*
Laughing Gull*
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove*
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Long-eared Owl*
Burrowing Owl
Black-chinned Hummingbird*
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Say's Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher*
Western Kingbird*
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow*
Barn Swallow*
Mountain Chickadee*
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit*
Brown Creeper*
Rock Wren
Winter Wren*
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Cactus Wren*
Golden-crowned Kinglet*
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Western Bluebird*
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Brown Thrasher
Sage Thrasher*
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Phainopepla*
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat*
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Whtie-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel*
Striped Skunk
White-tailed Deer
Mule Deer

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[leasbirds] The 2014 Game - March in The LEAS Region

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