[texbirds] The Third Visit to the Canyon Lakes of Lubbock - 2012 Game

From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:15:30 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:

I spent eight hours along the Canyon Lakes of Lubbock today, focussing on the 
river corridor below Lake Six, Lake Six itself, Mae Simmons Park, and MacKenzie 
State Park.  The June visit to the lake had to happen in July this year - due 
to all weekends in June getting eaten up by breeding bird surveys.  Hopefully 
the July visit to Hale County will happen in July.

Conditions were initially pleasant (warm, sunny, and calm) but quickly 
escalated to less than pleasant (very hot) during the day.  The morning hike 
below Lake Six was very productive; the afternoon hike at MacKenzie State Park 
less so - due to the heat.

Over the course of the day, I tallied 24 species of butterfly, 0 species of 
amphibian, 10 species of reptile (all five turtles -
 yay!), 60 species of bird, and 8 species of mammal.  The Canyon Lakes are now 
up to 31 species of butterfly, 0 species of amphibian, 10 species of reptile, 
129 species of bird, and 10 species of mammal - for the most part ahead of Hale 
County with 25 species of butterfly, 2 species of amphibian, 8 species of 
mammal, 105 species of bird, and 5 species of mammal.  It is quite possible 
that Hale County will maintain the lead in amphibians as extremely heavy rains 
would have to occur in a timely fashion in August for me to get any amphibians 
at all along the canyon lakes.  This brings me up to 62% of my goal of 50 
species of butterfly, 0% of the way towards my goal of 8 species of amphibian, 
67% of my goal of 15 species of reptile, 86% of my goal of 150 species of bird, 
and 67% 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)

2 Common Checkered Skippers
14 Common Sootywings
1 Orange Skipperling*
1 Bronze Roadside Skipper*
1 Eufala Skipper*
1 Pipevine Swallowtail*
1 Southern Dogface*
2 Lyside Sulphurs
2 Sleepy Oranges
4 Dainty Sulphurs
1 Juniper Hairstreak*
9 Gray Hairstreaks
1 Marine Blue*
7 Western Pygmy Blues*
21 Reakirt's Blues*
5 American Snouts*
5 Queens
1 Hackberry Emperor*
1 Bordered Patch*
14 Pearl Crescents*
3 Common Buckeyes*
5 Question Marks
1 Red Admiral
1 Goatweed Leafwing

1 Common Snapping Turtle
39 Red-eared Sliders
1 Yellow Mud Turtle*
1 Ornate Box Turtle*
8 Spiny Soft-shelled Turtles*
1 Eastern Fence Lizard
1 Great Plains Skink*
1 Six-lined Racerunner
1 Plain-bellied Water Snake
1 Great Plains Rat Snake*

7 Canada Geese
11 Mallards
2 Blue-winged Teals
1 Ruddy Duck
13 Northern Bobwhites
1 Wild Turkey*
4 Pied-billed Grebes
2 Least Bitterns*
3 Great Blue Herons
1 Snowy Egret
18 Green Herons
13 Black-crowned Night Herons
2 Yellow-crowned Night Herons
2 Turkey Vultures*
5 Mississippi Kites*
1 Swainson's Hawk
3 Common Gallinules
3 American Coots
10 Killdeers
1 Spotted Sandpiper
1 Greater Yellowlegs*
16 Rock Pigeons
82 Eurasian Collared Doves
49 White-winged Doves
88 Mourning Doves
4 Yellow-billed Cuckoos*
2 Barn Owls
1 Great Horned Owl
8 Black-chinned Hummingbirds*
1 Broad-tailed Hummingbird*
1 Rufous Hummingbird*
2 Belted Kingfishers
2 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers
4 Northern Flickers
2 Ash-throated Flycatchers
33 Western Kingbirds
22 Blue Jays
2 Cave Swallows*
48 Barn Swallows
2 Verdins*
2 Bewick's Wrens
37 American Robins
4 Northern Mockingbirds
4 European Starlings
3 Common Yellowthroats
8 Yellow-breasted Chats*
15 Northern Cardinals
6 Blue Grosbeaks*
2 Indigo Buntings*
5 Painted Buntings
70 Red-winged Blackbirds
2 Western Meadowlarks
10 Common Grackles
73 Great-tailed Grackles
2 Bronzed Cowbirds
1 Brown-headed Cowbirds
6 Orchard Orioles
7 Bullock's Orioles
25 House Finches
28 House Sparrows

3 Desert Cottontails*
4 Eastern Cottontails
2 Eastern Gray Squirrels
3 Black-tailed Prairie Dogs
2 Mexican Ground Squirrels*
1 North American Porcupine
1 Hispid Cotton Rat*
1 Bobcat*

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[texbirds] The Third Visit to the Canyon Lakes of Lubbock - 2012 Game

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