[leasbirds] Post Breeding Bird Survey - Full Report
- From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 18:18:13 -0500
Greetings All:
From 6:05 to 10:04 I covered the Post BBS route. Conditions were somewhat
damp from recent rains but all roads were - surprisingly - driveable. The
rains were nice but, in reality, have done little to relieve the
region-wide drought and the following list is missing quite a few generally
encountered, water-loving species: Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron,
Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet, and Yellow-billed Cuckoo come quickly
to mind. Additionally, numbers of resident species and regularly breeding
species were low to disturbingly low (a total of eight meadowlarks -
really?). Without further ado, the list:
1 Funereal Duskywing
1 Common Checkered Skipper
1 Common Sootywing
2 Dusted Skippers - QUITE HARD TO FIND
1 Black Swallowtail
1 Checkered White
2 Soapberry Hairstreaks
1 Ceraunus Blue - QUITE RARE IN THE REGION
2 Reakirt's Blues
1 Dotted Checkerspot
1 Common Buckeye
1 Texas Toad
2 Red-eared Sliders
2 Eastern Collared Lizards
1 Six-lined Racerunner
1 Coachwhip
2 Scaled Quails
13 Northern Bobwhites
16 Turkey Vultures
5 Mississippi Kites
2 Swainson's Hawks
3 Killdeers
5 Rock Pigeons
21 Eurasian Collared Doves
4 White-winged Doves
37 Mourning Doves
1 Inca Dove
7 Common Nighthawks
3 Chimney Swifts
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
2 Golden-fronted Woodpeckers
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
9 Ash-throated Flycatchers
60 Western Kingbirds
28 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
1 Loggerhead Shrike
3 Bell's Vireos
13 Horned Larks
4 Northern Rough-winged Swallows
1 Purple Martin
173 Cliff Swallows
36 Cave Swallows
29 Barn Swallows
2 Verdins
2 Bewick's Wrens
3 American Robins
1 Curve-billed Thrasher
36 Northern Mockingbirds
6 European Starlings
12 Cassin's Sparrows
12 Lark Sparrows
1 Grasshopper Sparrow
9 Northern Cardinals
1 Pyrrhuloxia
2 Blue Grosbeaks
7 Painted Buntings
1 Dickcissel
6 Red-winged Blackbirds
2 Eastern Meadowlarks
6 Western Meadowlarks
1 Yellow-headed Blackbird
5 Common Grackles
12 Great-tailed Grackles
2 Bronzed Cowbirds
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Orchard Oriole
15 Bullock's Orioles
7 House Finches
27 House Sparrows
1 Eastern Fox Squirrel
1 North American Porcupine
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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