Greetings 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.
I did pretty well in October though it was not as good for wandering, late
season butterflies as I hoped. This dashes my hopes of meeting the
butterfly goal as we do not get new butterflies, as a rule, in November or
December. Birds were also pretty good and, though I won't meet my
numerical goal (both migration seasons were just too poor), I did get a lot
of photographs of species I had seen but not photographed earlier in the
year.
All in all, I picked up 24 species of butterfly, 0 species of amphibian, 4
species of reptile, 90 species of bird, and 7 species of mammal bringing my
totals for the year up to 45 species of butterfly (90%), 1 species of
amphibian (20%), 12 species of reptile (120%), 160 species of bird (80%),
and 13 species of mammal (130%) for 2015.
Of these 231 critters, 195 species have been photographed (84%) so far this
year. I may not be able to get up to 5 species of amphibian or up to 200
species of bird but it is beginning to look better for making the 90%
photographed standard.
The October list with new species for the year denoted with an * and newly
photographed species for the year denoted with a (y):
Funereal Duskywings
Common Checkered Skipper
Orange Skipperling
Fiery Skipper
Sachem
Eufala Skipper
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Little Yellow
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Reakirt's Blue
American Snout
Hackberry Emperor
Monarch
Queen
Variegated Fritillary
Phaon Crescent
Pearl Crescent
Mourning Cloak
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
Goatweed Leafwing
Common Snapping Turtle
Red-eared Slider
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle
Eastern Fence Lizard
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Green-winged Teal
Northern Bobwhite(y)
Wild Turkey*(y)
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis*(y)
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier*
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk(y)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk(y)
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Forster's Tern*(y)
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Poorwill
Chimney Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Verdin
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird*(y)
Hermit Thrush(y)
American Robin
Gray Catbird(y)
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
MacGillivray's Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee(y)
Cassin's Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow
Field Sparrow(y)
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark*(y)
Western Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin*(y)
House Sparrow
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Hispid Cotton Rat
Northern Pygmy Mouse
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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