[leasbirds] The 2014 Game - January in The LEAS Region

From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 10:27:28 -0800 (PST)
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.  January was slow with chunks of unbirdably 
cold weather and a lot of time spent out of the region (the TOS meeting was, as 
always, worth the time away, though) and by the end of the month I was at 4 
species of butterfly (5%), 1 species of amphibian (10%), 1 species of reptile 
(4%), 98 species of bird (33%), and 9 species of mammal (36%) for the region.  
As mentioned in a separate
 post, Rich Kostecke is kicking my butt (137 bird species to 98 bird species) 
in our region vs. region competition and I will continue to track and post that 
whupping separately.  Without further ado, the January list for the LEAS region.

Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Red Admiral

Spotted Chorus Frog

Red-eared Slider

Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Wild Turkey
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-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Black-crested Titmouse
Canyon Wren
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
McCown's Longspur
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackel
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
House Sparrow


Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
North American Porcupine
Coyote
White-tailed Deer

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[leasbirds] The 2014 Game - January in The LEAS Region

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