Greetings All:
As promised the full report from the Circle BBS, completed on 21 June
2015. This route runs westward from Circle, passing just south of
Springlake, bends north to bypass Earth, and then continues westward to the
end - very close to the Lamb/Bailey County line. The roads were mostly dry
though playas were in good shape and the rebound in Northern Bobwhites,
Western Kingbirds, most sparrows, and Dickcissels was in full evidence.
Mourning Doves and House Sparrows were also very much in evidence. The
full list of critters identified:
2 Black Swallowtails
185 Checkered Whites
2 Orange Sulphurs
4 Sleep Oranges
2 Western Pygmy Blues
1 Monarch
3 Variegated Fritillaries
3 Phaon Crescents
3 Great Plains Toads
tens of toadlets
1 Texas Horned Lizard
2 Great Plains Skinks
2 Prairie Rattlesnakes
2 Blue-winged Teals
41 Northern Bobwhites
6 Cattle Egrets
4 Black-crowned Night Hernos
1 Mississippi Kite
12 Swainson's Hawks
2 Killdeers
5 Rock Pigeons
48 Eurasian Collared Doves
242 Mourning Doves
2 Barn Owls
9 Burrowing Owls
2 Common Nighthawks
2 Chimney Swifts
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
1 Prairie Flacon
5 Say's Phoebes - 2 adults with 3 fledglings
2 Ash-throated Flycatchers
195 Western Kingbirds
1 Chihuahuan Raven
73 Horned Larks
4 Cliff Swallows
2 Cave Swallows
52 Barn Swallows
13 American Robins
1 Curve-billed Thrasher
6 Northern Mockingbirds
10 European Starlings
1 Common Yellowthroat - vigorously singing male in good habitat
38 Cassin's Sparrows
54 Lark Sparrows
44 Lark Buntings
19 Grasshopper Sparrows
7 Blue Grosbeaks
19 Dickcissels
140 Red-winged Blackbirds
3 Eastern Meadowlarks
141 Western Meadowlarks
4 Common Grackles
170 Great-tailed Grackles
2 Bronzed Cowbird1
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
20 Bullock's Orioles
9 House Finches
166 House Sparrows
20 Black-tailed Jackrabbits
18 Desert Cottontails
28 Black-tailed Prairie Dogs
1 Hispid Cotton Rat
1 Coyote
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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