Greetings All:
My second game for the year (competing only against my self-set goals) is
to see how many species of butterfly, amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal
I can find and photograph along Lubbock's Canyon Lakes - running from the
west loop to the east loop.
My goals for the year - 50 species of butterfly, 5 species of amphibian, 10
species of reptile, 200 species of bird, and 10 species of mammal - with
90%, overall, documented via photography.
September saw little in the way of progress, mostly because fall migration
has been, from post-breeding wanderers to migrant songbirds, very poor.
This, combined with a very poor spring migration, has probably busted my
chances of meeting the goal for birds ... unless we have a wild
autumn/early winter.
All in all, I picked up 32 species of butterfly, 0 species of amphibian, 5
species of reptile, 86 species of bird, and 9 species of mammal bringing my
totals for the year up to 45 species of butterfly (90%), 1 species of
amphibian (20%), 12 species of reptile (120%), 153 species of bird (77%%),
and 13 species of mammal (130%) for 2015.
Of these 224 critters, 182 species have been photographed (81%) so far this
year. It is beginning to look like it will be impossible to reach the goal
of 5 species of amphibian (no toads), very difficult to reach my goal of
200 species of bird (already addressed), and difficult to make it to 90%
photographed - but I'm going to keep on trying.
Here's hoping for a productive October!
The September list with new species for the year denoted with an * and
newly photographed species for the year denoted with a (y):
Funereal Duskywings*(y)
Common Checkered Skipper
Common Sootywings
Orange Skipperling*(y)
Fiery Skipper*(y)
Sachem
Eufala Skipper*(y)
Orange Sulphur
Southern Dogface
Little Yellow
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur
Gray Hairstreak
Marine Blue
Western Pygmy Blue*(y)
Reakirt's Blue
Hackberry Emperor
Monarch
Queen
Variegated Fritillary
Bordered Patch
Phaon Crescent
Pearl Crescent
Vesta Crescent
Common Buckeye
Question Mark
Mourning Cloak
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
American Lady(y)
Goatweed Leafwing
Red-eared Slider
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle
Eastern Fence Lizard
Six-lined Racerunner
Eastern Fence Lizard
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret*(y)
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Sharp-shinned Hawk(y)
Cooper's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl*(y)
Common Poorwill*(y)
Chuck-will's-widow*
Chimney Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker*(y)
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Western Wood Pewee
Willow Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Verdin*(y)
House Wren*(y)
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher*(y)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher*
Brown Thrasher*(y)
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler(y)
Nashville Warbler(y)
Common Yellowthroat
MacGillivray's Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler*(y)
Wilson's Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Cassin's Sparrow*(y)
Chipping Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow
Brewer's Sparrow*(y)
Vesper Sparrow*(y)
Lark Sparrow*(y)
Lark Bunting*(y)
Grasshopper Sparrow*
Lincoln's Sparrow
Western Tanager*
Northern Cardinal
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting*(y)
Painted Bunting
Dickcissle
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
House Finch
House Sparrow
Black-tailed Jackrabbit*(y)
Eastern Cottontail
Desert Cottontail
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Hispid Cotton Rat
White-footed Deermouse
Northern Pygmy Mouse*
Gray Fox
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
