[leasbirds] The 2014 Game - February in the LEAS Region
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:21:16 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:
This year's game, titled A Slightly Bigger Patch, is to see how many species of
butterfly, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal I can find in my
home region. The LEAS region includes fifteen counties (Bailey, Lamb,
Hale, Floyd, Motley, Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Dickens, Yoakum, Terry,
Lynn, Garza, and Kent) and, with portions of the region below
and atop the Caprock Escarpment, offers a fairly wide variety of
habitats. My goals for the year are 75 species of butterfly, 10 species of
amphibian, 25 species of reptile, 300 species of bird, and 25 species of
mammal. February was like January, slow, with chunks of bitterly cold weather
and far too little precipitation. I did get out, though, spending goodly
portions of time in Floyd, Garza, Hale, Kent, Lamb, and Lubbock Counties during
the month and spotting 11 species of butterfly, 1 species of amphibian, 1
species of reptile, 132 species of bird, and 13 species of mammal during the
month, bringing my totals for the year up to 12 species of butterfly (16%), 2
species of amphibian (20%), 1 species of reptile (4%), 135 species of bird
(45%), and 13 species of mammal (52%).
As mentioned in a separate post, Rich
Kostecke is kicking my butt (167 bird species to 135 bird species) in our
region vs. region competition and I will continue to track and post
that whupping separately. Without further ado, the February list for the
LEAS region - with new additions *sked.
Common Checkered Skipper*
Cabbage White*
Checkered White*
Orange Sulphur*
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Reakirt's Blue*
Question Mark*
Mourning Cloak*
Red Admiral
Painted Lady*
American Bullfrog*
Red-eared Slider
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan*
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal*
Cinnamon Teal*
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback*
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye*
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser*
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite*
Ring-necked Pheasant*
Wild Turkey
Common Loon*
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk*
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle*
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper*
Wilson's Snipe*
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech Owl*
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Belted Kingfisher*
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Say's Phoebe*
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Purple Martin*
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin*
Red-breasted Nuthatch*
Rock Wren*
Canyon Wren
Marsh Wren*
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
Hermit Thrush*
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Brown Thrasher*
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit*
Cedar Waxwing
Lapland Longspur*
Chestnut-collared Longspur*
McCown's Longspur
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Canyon Towhee*
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow*
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow*
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark*
Western Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird*
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle*
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin*
Lesser Goldfinch*
American Goldfinch*
Evening Grosbeak*
House Sparrow
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
North American Porcupine
Coyote
Striped Skunk*
Raccoon*
Feral Pig*
White-tailed Deer
Mule Deer*
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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