Greetings All:
In compliance with Drew Harvey's request that I focus on a county lacking
herp records, I am going to be working Lynn County (the county just to the
south of Lubbock County) for critters and photographs of critters in 2017.
Lynn County is somewhat similar to Hockley County - lots of cropland,
almost no public land - but is different in one critical regard: there is
no publicly accessible permanent water. This doesn't mean that Lynn County
is dry, necessarily, but it does mean that my success with water-loving
species, from spadefoots to sandpipers, is going to be very dependent on
seasonal rainfall.
Stated numerical goals are, because of this, borderline hallucinatory.
That said, I will stick with goals of 50 species of butterfly, 5 species of
amphibian, 10 species of reptile, 200 species of bird, and 10 species of
mammal seen in Lynn County during 2017. As in 2016, I will also have the
goal of photographing at least 90% of the species seen.
I made my first visit yesterday - just a short one curtailed by a
combination of vicious winds and rather late cotton harvesting activities:
one can only consume so much dust and cotton fiber before one seeks
relief:) I didn't do too badly, photographing one of the two species of
butterfly seen and forty-three of the forty-seven species of bird seen
during my first four hours in the county for 2017.
If it rains, and rains well, I will meet my goals:) If it doesn't it is,
as they say, to cry:( Photographic success hinges as always, on taking
photographs of even the most common species at even the most ludicrous
distances - every first chance.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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