[texbirds] The Sixth Visit to the Canyon Lakes - 2012 Game

From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 09:51:19 -0800 (PST)
Greetings All:
I spent eight hours along the Canyon Lakes of Lubbock on Saturday, 5 January 
2013 - a very late finish to my 2012 game as December afforded on opportunities 
for me to get to the lakes.  I wandered along the lakes from Buddy Holly Park 
down to just below the spillway at Lake Six.  I could go no further as river 
access has been closed from a point just below the first trestle on down.

Conditions were pleasant throughout the day:
 cool enough for a sweater in the morning and perfect t-shirt weather in
 the afternoon with breezes not all that terrible.

Over
 the course of the day, I tallied 2 
species of butterfly, 0 species of amphibian, 0 species of reptile, 74 species 
of bird, and 4 species of mammal.  The Canyon 
Lakes 
are now up to 36 species of butterfly, 1 species of amphibian, 10 
species of reptile, 171 species of bird, and 12 species of mammal - 
surprisingly even with Hale County with its 39 species of butterfly, 3 
species of amphibian, 9 species of reptile, 162 species of bird, and 12 
species of mammal.  This brings me up to 72% of my goal of 50 
species of 
butterfly, 13% of the way towards my goal of 8 species of amphibian, 67%
 
of my goal of 15 species of reptile, 114% of my goal of 150 species of 
bird, and 80% of my goal of 15 species of mammal for the lakes. 

The day's list (with new additions to the Canyon Lakes of Lubbock list *sked)

1 Sleepy Orange

2 Greater White-fronted Geese*
247 Cackling Geese
834 Canada Geese
1 Wood Duck*
60 Gadwalls
2 American Wigeons
35 Mallards
113 Northern Shovelers
2 Northern Pintails
13 Green-winged Teals
1 Redhead*
32 Ring-necked Ducks
2 Lesser Scaups
15 Buffleheads
33 Hooded Mergansers
1 Common Merganser
2 Ruddy Ducks
51 Pied-billed Grebes
1 Western Grebe
2 Double-crested Cormorants
8 Great Blue Herons
7 Black-crowned Night Herons
2 Northern Harriers
3 Sharp-shinned Hawks
2 Cooper's Hawks
8 Red-tailed Hawks
1 Ferruginous Hawk
1 American Kestrel
1 Merlin
2 Common Gallinules
150 American Coots
161 Ring-billed Gulls
122 Rock Pigeons
47 Eurasian Collared Doves
6 White-winged Doves
107 Mourning Doves
7 Belted Kingfishers
1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker*
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpeckers
3 Northern Flickers
2 Blue Jays
1 Red-breasted Nuthatch
8 White-breasted Nuthatches
1 Brown Creeper
1 Winter Wren
5 Marsh Wrens
1 Bewick's Wren
2 Carolina Wrens
4 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
28 Eastern Bluebirds
51 American Robins
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
1 Palm Warbler*
25 Yellow-rumped Warblers
2 Field Sparrows
1 Fox Sparrow
19 Song Sparrows
3 Lincoln's Sparrows
1 Swamp Sparrow
1 White-throated Sparrow
2 Harris's Sparrows*
24 White-crowned Sparrows
4 Dark-eyed Juncos
4 Northern Cardinals
12 Red-winged Blackbirds
2 Eastern Meadowlarks
1 Western Meadowlark
33 Great-tailed Grackles
5 House Finches
1 Red Crossbill*
4 Pine Siskins
8 American Goldfinches

2 Eastern Cottontails
1 Desert Cottontail
1 Eastern Gray Squirrel
1 Bobcat

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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