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texbirds Digest   Sat, 02 Sep 2017   Volume: 06 Issue: 240
In This Issue:
      [texbirds] The Hewetson:Kostecke Competition - August Report
      [texbirds] Denton Co LLELA
      [texbirds] The Lynn County Photographic Game - August Report
      [texbirds] Cannon Road Loop
      [texbirds] New season of bird walks LLELA
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From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 16:20:40 -0500
Subject: [texbirds] The Hewetson:Kostecke Competition - August Report
Greetings All:
This year's competition finds Rich Kostecke working over 960 square miles
of Fayette County as Anthony Hewetson flails away at 902 square miles of
Crosby County. Both counties have a nice mix of habitats, though
Kostecke's is a bit less agricultural and a bit more wooded and watered.
On the other hand, Hewetson has some nice canyon cuts and, possibly, a
better selection of grasslands. To make things a bit more fair this year
lists are going to be weighted using the cumulative eBird total of ABA
countable birds as reported by 31 December 2016. That means that Rich's
efforts will be divided into a total of 264 species for Fayette County
whereas Anthony's efforts will be divided into a total of 290 species for
Crosby County. Species we add to the county lists during 2017 will not
cause these totals to go up: 264 and 290 remain fixed for purposes of the
contest.
Rich was besieged with work during August and made only one visit to
Fayette County during the month, adding not one bird to his list, leaving
him at 203 species of bird in Fayette County so far this year. September
should be better - assuming he is able to get to his best spots.
I was able to get out to my county twice, adding three species during my
first visit (Louisiana Waterthrush, White Ibis, Ruby-throated Hummingbird)
and nothing whatsoever during the second, bringing me up to 230 species in
Crosby County so far this year. I am waiting for migrant songbirds..
Weighted for eBird history, I have widened my tight lead a bit. My 230 out
of 290 puts me at 79.3103% while Rich's 203 out of 264 puts him at
76.8940%.
I have a feeling it's all going to come down to what sort of fronts stall
what sort of birds in our two counties during the next two months.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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From: Susan Yost <sdyost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Denton Co LLELA
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 21:38:18 +0000
Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area.
Had a Tri-colored Heron this morning just before the beaver pond, far in the
pond near the power easement and metal dock. Also Lots of Little Blues and
Green Herons. Sora was heard.
Sue YOST ~^/^~
LLELA
Highland Village
Denton Co.
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From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 17:09:39 -0500
Subject: [texbirds] The Lynn County Photographic Game - August Report
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 was able to put in two day-long visits to the county (nobody can say that
I don't play hard) and I did pretty well, noting 39 species of butterfly, 1
species of amphibian, 5 species of reptile, 124 species of bird, and 6
species of mammal during July, bringing me up to 52 species of butterfly,
10 species of amphibian, 12 species of reptile, 183 species of bird, and 11
species of mammal - moving the respective percentages up to 104%, 200%,
120%, 92%, and 110% - for the year.. Of the 268 species seen so far, I
have acquired identifiable photographs of 241 - making for a 89.92% success
rate ... with most of the species missed either nocturnals or skittish
migrant songbirds (many of which will be easier to photograph during fall
migration).
And on with the list (* = new to the list, y = photographed) - I have not
arranged birds in the newest taxonomic order (courtesy of the AOU) as I
have not yet seen the new listing.
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywings
Orange Skipperling
Sachem
Delaware Skipper*(y)
Black Swallowtail
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Cloudless Sulphur
Lyside Sulphur
Little Yellow*(y)
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Dusky-blue Groundstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
Reakirt's Blue
American Snout
Hackberry Emperor
Tawny Emperor*(y)
Monarch
Queen
Variegated Fritillary
Gulf Fritillary*
Bordered Patch(y)
Phaon Crescent
Painted Crescent
Pearl Crescent
Gorgone Checkerspot
Common Mestra
Viceroy*(y)
Common Buckeye
Question Mark*(y)
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Lady
Goatweed Leafwing
Plains Leopard Frog
Red-eared Slider
Northern Earless Lizard
Texas Horned Lizard
Coachwhip
Gopher Snake
Wood Duck*(y)
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Scaled Quail
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Ruby-throated Hummingbird*(y)
Common Gallinule*(y)
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
Upland Sandpiper
Marbled Godwit*(y)
Stilt Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Wilson's Phalarope
Black Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Harris's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Olive-sided Flycatcher*(y)
Western Wood Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher*(y)
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell's Vireo
Blue Jay
Chihuahuan Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
Verdin
Bewick's Wren
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Brown Thrasher*
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Sparrow
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow
Chippng Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow*
Lark Bunting
Grasshopper Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Blue Grosbeak
Black-headed Grosbeak*
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel(y)
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
Black-tailed Jackrabbitl
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Coyote
White-tailed Deer
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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From: "Mary Beth Stowe" <mbstowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Cannon Road Loop
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 17:31:51 -0500
Hi, all!
This morning we poked around the Cannon Road Loop, with some great
grasspiper activity at the Weaver Road Sod Farms with both Buff-breasted and
Pectoral Sandpipers being highlights! Groove-billed Anis were a hit along
the NWR tracts, and we had a lovely Blue Grosbeak in one of the cotton
fields! Had a White-tailed Kite and a Wood Stork along Jimenez, and didn't
have enough time to thoroughly check Rangerville Resaca, but a bunch of
Stilt Sandpipers were nice. Some pics are on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/marybeth.stowe
Bird List:
 Mottled Duck             Anas fulvigula
 Blue-winged Teal           Anas discors
 Wood Stork              Mycteria americana
 Snowy Egret             Egretta thula
 Little Blue Heron          Egretta caerulea
 White-faced Ibis           Plegadis chihi
 Turkey Vulture            Cathartes aura
 White-tailed Kite          Elanus leucurus
 Swainson's Hawk           Buteo swainsoni
 Common Gallinule           Gallinula galeata
 Black-necked Stilt          Himantopus mexicanus
 Killdeer               Charadrius vociferus
 Lesser Yellowlegs          Tringa flavipes
 Long-billed Curlew          Numenius americanus
 Stilt Sandpiper           Calidris himantopus
 Least Sandpiper           Calidris minutilla
 Buff-breasted Sandpiper       Calidris subruficollis
 Pectoral Sandpiper          Calidris melanotos
 Western Sandpiper          Calidris mauri
 Laughing Gull            Leucophaeus atricilla
 Rock Pigeon             Columba livia
 Eurasian Collared-Dove        Streptopelia decaocto
 White-winged Dove          Zenaida asiatica
 Mourning Dove            Zenaida macroura
 Inca Dove              Columbina inca
 Common Ground-Dove          Columbina passerina
 White-tipped Dove          Leptotila verreauxi
 Groove-billed Ani          Crotophaga sulcirostris
 Golden-fronted Woodpecker      Melanerpes aurifrons
 Crested Caracara           Caracara cheriway
 Eastern Wood-Pewee          Contopus virens
 Brown-crested Flycatcher       Myiarchus tyrannulus
 Great Kiskadee            Pitangus sulphuratus
 Tropical Kingbird          Tyrannus melancholicus
 Couch's Kingbird           Tyrannus couchii
 Loggerhead Shrike          Lanius ludovicianus
 White-eyed Vireo           Vireo griseus
 Bank Swallow             Riparia riparia
 Barn Swallow             Hirundo rustica
 Cave Swallow             Petrochelidon fulva
 Black-crested Titmouse        Baeolophus atricristatus
 Bewick's Wren            Thryomanes bewickii
 Clay-colored Thrush         Turdus grayi
 Curve-billed Thrasher        Toxostoma curvirostre
 Long-billed Thrasher         Toxostoma longirostre
 Northern Mockingbird         Mimus polyglottos
 European Starling          Sturnus vulgaris
 Common Yellowthroat         Geothlypis trichas
 Yellow Warbler            Setophaga petechia
 Olive Sparrow            Arremonops rufivirgatus
 Northern Cardinal          Cardinalis cardinalis
 Blue Grosbeak            Passerina caerulea
 Dickcissel              Spiza americana
 Red-winged Blackbird         Agelaius phoeniceus
 Great-tailed Grackle         Quiscalus mexicanus
 Lesser Goldfinch           Spinus psaltria
 House Sparrow            Passer domesticus
57 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
www.miriameaglemon.com <http://www.miriameaglemon.com>
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From: Susan Yost <sdyost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] New season of bird walks LLELA
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 22:41:31 +0000
The first of the season monthly bird walk will be Saturday, September 9. $5
per car. Checklist and trail maps are available at the gatehouse. Just ask
when you pay. Meet at the pavilion at 7:30AM. Bring optics, field guide,
water AND mosquito repellant. Early birds may just get a glimpse of our Bald
Eagles. [the 1st record of successful breeding of Bald Eagles at LLELA.]Â
Warblers are slowly making it in, Orioles are around, Scissortails, both
kingbirds and lots of egrets and herons. Come see what we can find!
Sue YOST ~^/^~
LLELA
Denton Co.
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