[texbirds] Fifth visit to Hale County - 2012 Game

From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:12:39 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:

I
 spent eight hours in Hale County yesterday, focussing on parks in the 
Plainview area, the 789 corridor, Muleshoe NWR's Hale County property, 
Petersburg, and Abernathy.  

Conditions were great - coolish in the morning and only up into the high 
eighties during the day - and the birds were really popping.  Though not as 
damp as my last visit, there were still quite a few tasty playas about and 
interesting migrants popped up in interesting spots.

Over
 the course of the day, I tallied 22 
species of butterfly, 0 species of amphibian, 4 species of reptile, 84 species 
of bird, and 1 species of mammal.  Hale County is now
 up to 37 species of butterfly, 3 species of amphibian, 9 species of 
reptile, 148 species of bird, and 10 species of mammal - mixed results 
compared to the Canyon Lakes of Lubbock with 34 species of butterfly, 1 
species of amphibian, 10 
species of reptile, 147 species of bird, and 11 species of mammal.  This
 brings me up to 74% of my goal of 50 species of 
butterfly, 38% of my goal of 8 species of amphibian, 60%
 
of my goal of 15 species of reptile, 98% of my goal of 150 species of 
bird, and 66% of my goal of 15 species of mammal for the county this year.

The day's list (with new additions to the list *sked)

10 Common Checkered Skippers
10 Common Sootywings
1 Eufala Skipper
7 Checkered Whites
31 Orange Suphurs
3 Sleepy Oranges
4 Dainty Sulphurs
1 Gray Hairstreak
14 Western Pygmy Blues
3 Reakirt's Blues
2 Monarchs
12 Queens
1 Variegated Fritillary
1 Bordered Patch*
1 Phaon Crescent
4 Painted Crescents*
3 Pearl Crescents
1 Common Buckeye
1 Question Mark
1 Mourning Cloak
2 Red Admirals
3 Painted Ladies

8 Red-eared Sliders
1 Six-lined Racerunner
1 Checkered Garter Snake
1 Plains Black-headed Snake*

2 Canada Geese
10 Gadwalls
10 Mallards
85 Blue-winged Teals
4 Northern Shovelers
140 Northern Pintails
4 Green-winged Teals
14 Ruddy Ducks*
2 Northern Bobwhites
1 Ring-necked Pheasant
1 Eared Grebe*
5 Great Blue Herons
2 Snowy Egrets
13 Black-crowned Night Herons
2 Turkey Vultures
1 Cooper's Hawk*
3 Swaison's Hawks
8 American Kestrels
38 American Coots
18 Killdeers
3 Black-necked Stilts
31 American Avocets
7 Spotted Sandpipers
6 Greater Yellowlegs
4 Lesser Yellowlegs
1 Long-billed Curlew*
51 unidentified 'peeps'
2 Semipalmated Sandpipers
5 Western Sandpipers
10 Least Sandpipers
5 Baird's Sandpipers
1 Pectoral Sandpiper*
3 Stilt Sandpipers
1 Wilson's Snipe*
4 Wilson's Phalaropes*
35 Rock Pigeons
87 Eurasian Collared Doves
3 White-winged Doves
125 Mourning Doves
3 Belted Kingfishers*
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
1 Western Wood Pewee
1 Willow Flycatcher
1 Gray Flycatcher*
1 Eastern Phoebe*
1 Great Crested Flycatcher*
3 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
6 Blue Jays
1 American Crow
4 Horned Larks
9 Northern Rough-winged Swallows*
2 Bank Swallows
45 Cliff Swallows
14 Cave Swallows
80 Barn Swallows
2 House Wrens*
4 American Robins
1 Northern Mockingbird
15 European Starlings
1 Ovenbird*
2 Nashville Warblers*
1 MacGillivray's Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Townsend's Warbler*
13 Wilson's Warblers
2 Chipping Sparrows
33 Clay-colored Sparrows*
1 Brewer's Sparrow*
4 Vesper Sparrows
5 Lark Sparrows
3 Lark Buntings
17 Grasshopper Sparrows
1 Lincoln's Sparrow
1 Western Tanager*
1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak*
5 Blue Grosbeaks
7 Painted Buntings
19 Red-winged Blackbirds
2 Yellow-headed Blackbirds
582 Great-tailed Grackles
1 Orchard Oriole
1 Baltimore Oriole*
31 House Finches
1 Lesser Goldfinch
30 House Sparrows

1 Gray Fox*

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[texbirds] Fifth visit to Hale County - 2012 Game

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