[texbirds] The Local Patch - First Month of the 2013 Game

From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 11:46:30 -0800 (PST)
Greetings All:
This goal of this year's game is to see how many butterflies, amphibians, 
reptiles, birds, and mammals I can see in my 'patch': a circle, with a radius 
of 7.5 miles, centered on the intersection of Quaker Avenue and 34th Street in 
Lubbock, Texas.  All of Lubbock's in-town playas, the entire run of the Canyon 
Lakes of Lubbock, and a lot of urban/suburban parks are in my patch with some 
agricultural/prairie patches around the periphery.  I don't quite get Buffalo 
Springs Lake or City Farms to the east but I do get Reese Center to the west - 
this game will provide me with an incentive to learn exactly how Reese Center 
is birded.  I decided to set my goals high - failure is definitely an option: 
50 species of butterfly, 5 species of amphibian, 10 species of reptile, 250 
species of bird, and 15 species of mammal by the end of 2013.

The first month saw visits to the Canyon Lakes and the in-town playas of 
Lubbock, with Clapp Park being the most productive of the in-town parks.  The 
following list includes all critters (1 butterfly, 101 bird, 5 mammal species) 
seen in my patch during the month.

Sleepy Orange

Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Blue Jay
American Crow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird

Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
House Mouse
Bobcat

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock

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