[texbirds] The June Report for the 2014 Game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 17:06:52 -0500
Greetings All
This year's game, titled 'A Slightly Bigger Patch' is to see how many species
of butterfly, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal I can find in my
home region.
The LEAS region includes fifteen counties (Bailey, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Motley,
Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Dickens, Yoakum,Terry, Lynn, Garza,
and Kent)
and, with portions of the region below andatop the Caprock Escarpment, offers a
fairly wide variety of habitats.  My goals for the year are 75 species of
butterfly, 10 species of amphibian, 25 species of reptile, 300 species of bird,
and 25 species of mammal.

June was a very slow month, as expected, and I added very little in the way of
any taxonomical category - though reptiles and mammals surprised me a bit -
thanks to many very early morning hours of getting to Breeding Bird Surveys. All
in all, I located 35 species of butterfly, 9 species of amphibian, 17 species of
reptile, 87 species of bird, and 24 species of mammal during the month.
This brought the totals for the year up to 58 species of butterfly (73%), 12
species of amphibian (120%), 28 species of reptile (112%), 256 species of bird
(85%), and 35 species of mammal (140%).

As mentioned in a separate and earlier post, Rich Kostecke is now
quite far ahead
of me with 262 species of birds (to my 256) in his fifteen-county region and I
expect the situation to worsen as fall migration kicks in.

Without further ado, the June list for the LEAS region - with new additions
*sked.


Funereal Duskywing
Horace's Duskywing*
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywing
Sachem
Bronze Roadside Skipper
Nysa Roadside Skipper*
Strecker's Giant Skipper*
Pipevine Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Lyside Sulphur*
Little Yellow
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
Reakirt's Blue
American Snout
Hackberry Emperor
Tawny Emperor*
Monarch
Gulf Fritillary*
Variegated Fritillary
Phaon Crescent
Common Buckeye
Question Mark
Painted Lady
American Lady*
Goatweed Leafwing
Red Satyr

Great Plains Toad
Texas Toad
Woodhouse's Toad
Green Toad
Plains Spadefoot
New Mexico Spadefoot
Northern Cricket Frog
Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad
American Bullfrog


Red-eared Slider
Yellow Mud Turtle
Eastern Fence Lizard
Side-blotched Lizard*
Texas Horned Lizard
Great Plains Skink
Texas Spotted Whiptail
Six-lined Racerunner
Checkered Garter Snake
Western Hog-nosed Snake
Coachwhip
Gopher Snake
Eastern Glossy Snake*
Common Kingsnake
Massassauga*
Prairie Rattlesnake
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake

Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Scaled Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant*
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Wilson's Phalarope
Franklin's Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Chuck-will's-widow*
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole*
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Virginia Opossum*
Western Pipistrelle*
Mexican Free-tailed Bat*
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Spotted Ground Squirrel
Mexican Ground Squirrel*
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat*
Ord's Kangaroo Rat
Merriam's Pocket Mouse*
Hispid Pocket Mouse*
North American Porcupine
Northern Pygmy Mouse
Hispid Cotton Rat
Coyote
Swift Fox*
Striped Skunk
Raccoon
White-tailed Deer
Mule Deer

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock


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