Greetings All:
As promised, I am - finally - getting around to posting the full reports
from the six Breeding Bird Surveys I cover in my region.
On 27 May 2017, I completed the Post BBS - entirely within Garza County.
This route starts west of Post, runs eastward to Post, then bends northeast
and continues along FM 651 to the Salt Fork of the Brazos River.
Conditions were generally lush but, due to the early timing of this
spring's rains, there was very little standing water and things were,
across all taxa, surprisingly slow in terms of both diversity and
abundance. I had the feeling, throughout the morning, that I had missed
'the peark' this year.
All in all, I tallied:
2 Outis Skippers
1 Common Checkered Skipper
2 Checkered Whites
12 Orange Sulphurs
12 Southern Dogfaces
3 Lyside Sulphurs
1 Little Yellow
2 Sleepy Oranges
1 Variegated Fritillary
2 Bordered Patches
1 Red-eared Slider
2 Texas Horned Lizards
1 Western Hog-nosed Snake
41 Northern Bobwhites
10 Scaled Quails
10 Rock Pigeons
14 Eurasian Collared Doves
11 White-winged Doves
64 Mourning Doves
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
3 Greater Roadrunners
5 Common Nighthawks
4 Chimney Swifts
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
6 Killdeers
1 Double-crested Cormorant
5 Turkey Vultures
6 Mississippi Kites
4 Golden-fronted Woodpeckers
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
1 American Kestrel
8 Ash-throated Flycatchers
64 Western Kingbirds
26 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
1 Loggerhead Shrike
1 Bell's Vireo
1 Common Raven
17 Horned Larks
3 Purple Martins
4 Northern Rough-winged Swallows
306 Cliff Swallows
25 Cave Swallows
12 Barn Swallows
1 Verdin
1 Curve-billed Thrasher
25 Northern Mockingbirds
18 European Starlings
39 House Sparrows
3 House Finches
7 Cassin's Sparrows
18 Lark Sparrows
1 Grasshopper Sparrow
5 Northern Cardinals
3 Pyrrhuloxias
3 Blue Grosbeaks
5 Painted Buntings
4 Dickcissels
11 Red-winged Blackbirds
1 Eastern Meadowlark
9 Western Meadowlarks
13 Common Grackles
39 Great-tailed Grackles
2 Bronzed Cowbirds
7 Brown-headed Cowbirds
1 Orchard Oriole
2 Bullock's Orioles
6 Desert Cottontails
1 Plains Pocket Mouse
1 Coyote
1 White-tailed Deer
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
