Greetings All:
After losing the 28th of May to high winds and the weekend of the 4th/5th
of June to rains heavy enough to make the region's dirt roads
non-negotiable, I was able to get out and do another route.
On 11 June 2017, I completed the Circle BBS - entirely within Lamb County.
This route starts in Circle, runs westward south of Springlake to a point
just south of Earth, turns north and runs to a point just north of Earth,
and then bends west to run almost to the Lamb/Bailey County line. Recent
rains had left some standing water and, though butterflies and herps were a
bit less abundant and diverse than expected, birds and mammals were loving
the generally damp and lush conditions and I generated a surprisingly good
list for June.
All in all, I tallied:
2 Common Sootywings
75 Checkered Whites
6 Orange Sulphurs
2 Southern Dogfaces
3 Sleepy Oranges
1 Dainty Sulphur
1 Bordered Patch
1 Ornate Box Turtle
1 Yellow Mud Turtle
1 Checkered Garter Snake
1 Prairie Rattlesnake
2 Blue-winged Teals
20 Northern Bobwhites
3 Ring-necked Pheasants
2 Rock Pigeons
32 Eurasian Collared Doves
2 Inca Doves
3 White-winged Doves
151 Mourning Doves
1 Greater Roadrunner
4 Common Nighthawks
2 Chimney Swifts
2 Black-necked Stilts
6 American Avocets
10 Killdeers
5 Cattle Egrets
2 Black-crowned Night Herons
2 White-faced Ibises
4 Swainson's Hawks
3 Barn Owls
2 Burrowing Owls
2 American Kestrels
1 Ash-throated Flycatcher
207 Western Kingbirds
7 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
1 Loggerhead Shrike
1 Blue Jay
2 Chihuahuan Ravens
77 Horned Larks
2 Cliff Swallows
2 Cave Swallows
52 Barn Swallows
7 American Robins
1 Curve-billed Thrasher
13 Northern Mockingbirds
15 European Starlings
80 House Sparrows
3 House Finches
30 Cassin's Sparrows
43 Lark Sparrows
18 Grasshopper Sparrows
14 Blue Grosbeaks
5 Dickcissels
35 Red-winged Blackbirds
3 Eastern Meadowlarks
106 Western Meadowlarks
6 Common Grackles
118 Great-tailed Grackles
2 male Bronzed Cowbirds
3 Brown-headed Cowbirds
12 Bullock's Orioles
31 Black-tailed Jackrabbits
9 Desert Cottontails
1 Hispid Cotton Rat
1 Coyote
2 Striped Skunks
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
