[leasbirds] The July Report for the 2014 Game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:32:26 -0500
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.

July was, as expected, a good pickup over June and managed to add a species or
quite a few species to each of the taxonomic categories I track with
butterflies
providing the most surprises. All in all, I located 58 species of butterfly, 4
species of amphibian, 15 species of reptile, 111 species of bird, and
13 species
of mammal during the month.
This brought the totals for the year up to 70 species of butterfly (93%), 12
species of amphibian (120%), 29 species of reptile (116%), 261 species of bird
(87%), and 36 species of mammal (144%).

As mentioned in a separate and earlier post, Rich Kostecke is still ahead of
me with 267 species of birds (to my 261) in his fifteen-county region and I
expect the situation to worsen as fall migration kicks in.
Without further ado, the July list for the LEAS region - with new additions
*sked.

Outis Skipper
Juvenal's Duskying
Funereal Duskywing
Texas Powdered Skipper*
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywing
Orange Skipperling*
Least Skipper
Fiery Skipper*
Sachem
Common Roadside Skipper*
Bronze Roadside Skipper
Nysa Roadside Skipper*
Dotted Roadside Skipper
Eufala Skipper
Brazilian Skipper*
Pipevine Swallowtail
Black Swallowtail
Giant Swallowtail*
Cabbage White
Checkered White
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Lyside Sulphur
Little Yellow
Mexican Yellow*
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Juniper Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
Reakirt's Blue
Lupine Blue*
Fatal Metalmark*
American Snout
Hackberry Emperor
Tawny Emperor
Monarch
Queen
Gulf Fritillary
Variegated Fritillary
Bordered Patch*
Gorgone Checkerspot
Phaon Crescent
Pearl Crescent
Vesta (Graphic) Crescent
Texas Crescent*
Viceroy*
Common Buckeye
Question Mark
Mourning Cloak
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Lady
Goatweed Leafwing
Red Satyr
Common Wood Nymph

Northern Cricket Frog
Spotted Chorus Frog
Plains Leopard Frog
American Bullfrog


Red-eared Slider
Ornate Box Turtle
Yellow Mud Turtle
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle
Mediterranean Gecko
Eastern Collared Lizard
Greater Earless Lizard
Eastern Fence Lizard
Texas Spiny Lizard
Texas Horned Lizard
Great Plains Skink
Six-lined Racerunner
Coachwhip
Great Plains Rat Snake*
Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake

Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Scaled Quail
Northern Bobwhite
Wild Turkey
Double-crested Cormorant
Least Bittern*
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite*
Mississippi Kite
Swainson's Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Upland Sandpiper*
Long-billed Curlew
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Greater Roadrunner
Barn Owl
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird*
Broad-tailed Hummingbird*
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatch
Western Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Bell's Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit
Canyon Wren
Carolina Wren
Bewick's Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-breasted Chat
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Canyon Towhee
Cassin's Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Virginia Opossum
Nine-banded Armadillo
Least Shrew*
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Hispid Cotton Rat
Striped Skunk
Raccoon
White-tailed Deer

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
[leasbirds] The July Report for the 2014 Game - A Slightly Bigger Patch

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