[texbirds] Full Report from Dougherty BBS - 2 June 2013
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:52:30 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:
I completed the Dougherty BBS (Floyd County) on 2 June 2013. The route which
runs generally westward from Dougherty to well southwest of Floydada was almost
as dry as I have ever seen it and, though birding wasn't as bad as last year,
the ongoing drought has really had a negative impact on butterflies,
amphibians, reptiles, water-loving birds, and small mammals. Some relief had
come the night before in the shape of very spotty showers and I actually had
one damp playa and one water-filled ditch along the route.
The entire list of critters seen on the Dougherty BBS:
1 Common Checkered Skipper
1 Gray Hairstreak
many Plains Spadefoots
2 Mallards
5 Northern Bobwhites
1 Ring-necked Pheasant
37 Cattle Egrets
42 White-faced Ibises
2 Turkey Vultures
1 Mississippi Kite
2 Swainson's Hawks
5 Killdeers
3 Eurasian Collared Doves
48 Mourning Doves
1 Greater Roadrunner
5 Burrowing Owls
1 Common Nighthawk
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
5 American Kestrels
1 Western Wood Pewee
3 Ash-throated Flycatchers
92 Western Kingbirds
6 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
2 Common Ravens
64 Horned Larks
8 Barn Swallows
2 Cliff Swallows
1 Bewick's Wren
9 Northern Mockingbirds
1 Curve-billed Thrasher
5 European Starlings
1 MacGillivray's Warbler
1 Cassin's Sparrow
17 Lark Sparrows
3 Grasshopper Sparrows
5 Blue Grosbeaks
3 Painted Buntings
5 Dickcissels
18 Red-winged Blackbirds
7 Eastern Meadowlarks
31 Western Meadowlarks
1 Common Grackle
12 Great-tailed Grackles
2 Bronzed Cowbirds
1 Orchard Oriole
7 Bullock's Orioles
2 House Finches
16 House Sparrows
1 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
1 Desert Cottontail
24 Black-tailed Prairie Dogs
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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