[texbirds] The Local Patch - Fourth Month of the 2013 Game
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 08:09:13 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:
I realize that I am a little late in getting this summary of my 2013 game out
... but May has been a busy, busy month - what with patch birding, adding two
more counties to my TCC list, and documenting a whole bunch of butterfly
records for Hood County.
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 almost to Reese Center to the west. 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 fourth month saw visits to the Canyon Lakes and the in-town playas of
Lubbock ... and to the just-barely-in-my-patch playa at Reese Center. The
riparian area below Lake Six, Lake Six itself, the Purina Mountain Bike Trail,
and Clapp Park were the places to be.
The following list includes all critters (25 butterfly, 1 amphibian, 8
reptile, 154 bird, 11 mammal species) seen in my patch during the
month. By the end of April I was up to 29 species of butterfly, 1 species of
amphibian, 9
species of reptile, 201 species of bird, and 14 species of mammal in my
patch for the year. Species that were new to the list for the year are
indicated with an *.
Mournful Duskywing*
Funereal Duskywing*
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywing
Orange Skipperling*
Sachem*
Yucca Giant Skipper*
Black Swallowtail*
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Falcate Orangetip*
Olympia Marble
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface*
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Western Pygmy Blue*
Reakirt's Blue
Variegated Fritillary*
Phaon Crescent*
Pearl Crescent*
Vesta (Graphic) Crescent*
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Bullfrog
Common Snapping Turtle*
Red-eared Slider
Ornate Box Turtle*
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle*
Eastern Fence Lizard*
Great Plains Skink*
Six-lined Racerunner*
Plain-bellied Water Snake*
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Clark's Grebe*
Neotropic Cormorant*
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret*
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron*
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron*
White-faced Ibis*
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite*
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk*
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Sora*
Virginia Rail*
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper*
Solitary Sandpiper*
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper*
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper*
White-rumped Sandpiper*
Pectoral Sandpiper*
Stilt Sandpiper*
Long-billed Dowitcher*
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Phalarope*
Franklin's Gull*
Ring-billed Gull
Least Tern*
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Great Horned Owl
Long-eared Owl*
Short-eared Owl*
Common Poorwill*
Chimney Swift*
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Ruby-throoated Hummingbird*
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker*
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Olive-sided Flycatcher*
Say's Phoebe*
Eastern Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher*
Cassin's Kingbird*
Western Kingbird*
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher*
Loggerhead Shrike
Plumbeous Vireo*
Blue Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow*
Tree Swallow*
Bank Swallow*
Barn Swallow*
Cliff Swallow*
Verdin*
Rock Wren
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Bewick's Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Sage Thrasher*
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Louisiana Waterthrush*
Northern Waterthrush*
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler*
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart*
Northern Parula*
Yellow Warbler*
Yellow-throated Warbler*
Palm Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Wilson's Warbler*
Spotted Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow*
Canyon Towhee*
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow*
Brewer's Sparrow*
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow*
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow*
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Lazuli Bunting*
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird*
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird*
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole*
Bullock's Oriole*
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch*
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Mexican Ground Squirrel*
House Mouse
Hispid Cotton Rat*
Coyote
Mule Deer*
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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