[texbirds] The Local Patch - Seventh Month of the 2013 Game
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:14:44 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:
Here is the seventh summary of my 2013 game. June is typically the least
speciose month of the year, in terms of birds, but this year many migrants
lingered into the first week of June and there was an almost eerie absence of
shorebirds in July - making this the first year since I moved to Lubbock where
my June bird list (100 species) exceeded my July bird list (90 species). Other
taxa did well in July, though, and I racked up 31 species of butterfly, 3
species of amphibian, 8 species of reptile, and 9 species of mammal - in my
little CBC-sized patch centered on the intersection of 34th Street and Quaker
Avenue.
My goals for the year were 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
the year. By the end of July, I had tallied 48 species of butterfly (96%), 8
species of amphibian (160%), 20 species of reptile (200%), 242 species of bird
(97%), and 21 species of mammal (233%). The rate of success for amphibians,
reptiles, and mammals has been far better than I expected and is probably due
to the fact that the drought is not nearly as bad as it was last year.
The following list includes all the critters seen in my patch during July and
additions to the cumulative list are indicated with an *
Funereal Duskywing
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywing
Orange Skipperling
Sachem
Bronze Roadside Skipper*
Eufala Skipper
Pipevine Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Lyside Sulphur
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
Reakirt's Blue
American Snout
Monarch
Queen
Gulf Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Bordered Patch*
Pearl Crescent
Viceroy
Common Buckeye*
Question Mark
Mourning Cloak
Red Admiral
American Lady
Red-spotted Toad*
Plains Leopard Frog*
American Bullfrog
Common Snapping Turtle
Red-eared Slider
Yellow Mud Turtle
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle
Great Plains Skink
Six-lined Racerunner
Gopher Snake
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake
Black-bellied Whistling Duck*
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Northern Bobwhite
Scaled Quail
Wild Turkey
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron*
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Swainson's Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Snowy Plover*
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird*
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Blue Jay
Horned Lark
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Lark Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Painted Bunting
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
House Sparrow
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
North American Porcupine
Hispid Cotton Rat
White-tailed Deer*
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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