Greetings All:
In compliance with Drew Harvey's request that I focus on a county lacking
herp records, I am going to be working Lynn County (the county just to the
south of Lubbock County) for critters and photographs of critters in 2017.
Lynn County is somewhat similar to Hockley County - lots of cropland,
almost no public land - but is different in one critical regard: there is
no publicly accessible permanent water. This doesn't mean that Lynn County
is dry, necessarily, but it does mean that my success with water-loving
species, from spadefoots to sandpipers, is going to be very dependent on
seasonal rainfall.
Stated numerical goals are, because of this, borderline hallucinatory.
That said, I will stick with goals of 50 species of butterfly, 5 species of
amphibian, 10 species of reptile, 200 species of bird, and 10 species of
mammal seen in Lynn County during 2017. As in 2016, I will also have the
goal of photographing at least 90% of the species seen.
I visited the county several times during the month but none of the visits
were on warm days following rains and the herp list remains surprisingly
thin given the overall warm and wet conditions prevalent in the region thus
far. All in all I picked up 28 species, 1 species of amphibian 1 species of
reptile,132 species of bird, and 6 species of mammal, bringing me up to 32
species of butterfly, 2 species of amphibian, 1 species of reptile, 150
species of bird, and 7 species of mammal - moving the respective
percentages up to 64%, 40%, 10%, 75%, and 70%. Of the 192 species seen so
far, I acquired identifiable photographs of 173 - making for a 90% success
rate. We should - though I am beginning to wonder - see a start to the
amphibian/reptile season and success with birds has come down to my success
at getting migrant songbirds to hold still.
And on with the list (* = new to the list, y = photographed)
Juvenal's Duskywings
Funereal Duskywings
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywings
Orange Skipperling*(y)
Nysa Roadside Skipper *(y)
Dotted Roadside Skipper*(y)
Pipevine Swallowtail*(y)
Black Swallowtail
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Lyside Sulphur
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue*(y)
Reakirt's Blue
Monarch*(y)
Variegated Fritillary
Bordered Patch*
Vesta Crescent
Phaon Crescent
Painted Crescent
Gorgone Checkerspot
Red Admiral(y)
Painted Lady*(y)
Goatweed Leafwing
Northern Cricket Frog*
Red-eared Slider
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite(y)
Scaled Quail
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt*(y)
American Avocet
Snowy Plover
Semipalmated Plover*(y)
Killdeer
Stilt Sandpiper*(y)
Baird's Sandpiper*(y)
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper*(y)
Pectoral Sandpiper*(y)
Western Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher*(y)
Wilson's Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper*(y)
Solitary Sandpiper*(y)
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet*(y)
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson's Phalarope*(y)
Franklin's Gull*(y)
Ring-billed Gull*(y)
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican*(y)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Cattle Egret*(y)
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Swainson's Hawk*(y)
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Barn Owl*
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon*(y)
Say's Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher*(y)
Western Kingbird*(y)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher*(y)
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell's Vireo*
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow*(y)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow*(y)
Bank Swallow*(y)
Cliff Swallow*(y)
Cave Swallow*(y)
Barn Swallow
Rock Wren*(y)
Marsh Wren
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Swainson's Thrush*(y)
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Sparrow
American Pipit
Sprague's Pipit*
House Finch
Common Yellowthroat*
Yellow Warbler*
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat*
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow*(y)
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow*(y)
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow*(y)
Lark Bunting*(y)
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow*
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Blue Grosbeak*(y)
Lazuli Bunting*
Indigo Bunting*
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird*(y)
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle(y)
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole*(y)
Black-tailed Jackrabbit*
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail(y)
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Coyote
White-tailed Deer
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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