Greeting All:
My second game for the year (competing only against my self-set goals) is
to see how many species of butterfly, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal
I can find and photograph along Lubbock's Canyon Lakes - running from the
west loop to the east loop.
My goals for the year - 50 species of butterfly, 5 species of amphibian, 10
species of reptile, 200 species of bird, and 10 species of mammal - with
90%, overall, documented via photography.
April saw less progress than expected (a combination of poor weather and
little effort due to illness) with 13 species of butterfly, 0 species of
amphibian, 3 species of reptile, 35 species of bird, and 4 species of
mammal bringing my totals for the year up to 16 species of butterfly (32%),
0 species of amphibian (0%), 4 species of reptile (40%), 92 species of bird
(46%), and 7 species of mammal (70%) for 2015 of which 91 species have been
photographed (76%) so far this year.
With the bronchitis/pneumonia out of my system, good rains falling, and the
peak of migration on its way, May should see some improvement across the
board ... but I am really going to have to start turning some rocks and
boards to make a dent in the herp and small mammal deficits.
The April list with new species for the year denoted with an * and newly
photographed species for the year denoted with a (y):
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywing*(y)
Southern Dogface
Sleepy Orange*
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak*(y)
Monarch*
Phaon Crescent*(y)
Pearl Crescent
Vesta Crescent*(y)
Texas Crescent*(y)
Red Admiral*(y)
Goatweed Leafwing
Red-eared Slider
Six-lined Racerunner*
Plain-bellied Water Snake*(y)
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Snowy Egret*(y)
Cattle Egret
Green Heron*(y)
Black-crowned Night Heron
American Coot
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Blue Jay
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow(y)
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Eastern Cottontail(y)
Desert Cottontail
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Hispid Cotton Rat
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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