Sep 1 Defiance County Ohio Aspacher/SR 18. An OSPREY greets us as we arrive back home, in a
field with three RedTailed Hawks (both in South Texas only in winter). I'll have little time for birding but I
can't help but notice the obvious as we fly into Detroit: the Canada Geese and Mallards and
RingBilled Gulls etc none common in South Texas. Wauseon's Reservoir is empty: not time for
duck migration yet evidently.
Sep 2 Williams County, Ohio I explored the Joint Water Management Project
(aka 16/C). Just the usual birds: 354 Canada Geese, 2 Mallards (neither seen in South Texas!), 2 Great Blue
Heron, 1 Turkey Vulture, 1 RedTailed Hawk, 1 Kestrel (both seen only in Winter in South Texas), 5 Crows (NEVER seen in South
Texas), 1 Belted Kingfisher (a winter bird only in South Texas), 138 Killdeer, 6 Mourning Doves, 1 Eastern Kingbird,
34 Barn Swallows, 20 Starlings, 2 House Sparrows. Evidently shorebirds aren't migrating yet.
Sep 3 Paulding County Ohio Black Swamp Nature Center Canada Goose
60, Wood Duck 22, Mallard 6 (none common in South Texas), Great Blue Heron
2, Green Heron 7, Killdeer 27, Spotted Sandpiper
3, Mourning Dove 15, Chimney Swift 2, Belted Kingfisher 2, Red-headed
Woodpecker 1, Red-bellied Woodpecker 6, Downy
Woodpecker 4, Hairy Woodpecker 1, (none
of these Woodpeckers are in South Texas), Eastern Wood-Pewee 2, Eastern
Kingbird 5, Warbling Vireo 3, Blue Jay
10, Tree Swallow
34, House Wren
5, American Robin 15, Gray
Catbird 7, Brown Thrasher
1, European Starling 32, Savannah
Sparrow 1, Song Sparrow 4, Northern Cardinal
2, Red-winged Blackbird 60, Common
Grackle 2 (only 2 on the entire trip!), Brown-headed Cowbird 12,
House Finch 2, American Goldfinch 10
Sep 5 Independence Dam DefianceCo OH Canada Goose 25, Wood
Duck 8, Mallard 1, Double-crested Cormorant 1, Great
Blue Heron, Great Egret 1, Turkey Vulture, Osprey
1, Bald
Eagle 2, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper,Solitary Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Ring-billed Gull
10, Black Tern 4,
Mourning Dove, Belted Kingfisher,
Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Northern
Flicker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo 1, Blue Jay, Barn Swallow,
Tufted Titmouse, White-breasted
Nuthatch, Carolina Wren 3, House Wren 1, American
Robin, Gray Catbird, European Starling, Northern
Cardinal
Sep 7 Paulding Sewage Lagoons Casual stop with non-birder reveals 2 Ruddy Ducks, a Mallard, and many
Bank, Cliff, Barn and Tree Swallows.
Sep 8 Sherwood DefianceCo Ohio A simple walk around the block of our old home: Canada
Goose 350, Wood Duck 54, Great Blue Heron 1, Turkey
Vulture 1, Bald
Eagle 1 a Juvenile flying overhead, an uncommon occurence!, Red-tailed
Hawk 1, American Kestrel 1, Killdeer 11, Lesser Yellowlegs 2, Rock Pigeon 20, Mourning
Dove 31, Chimney Swift 6, Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2, Belted Kingfisher 1, Red-bellied
Woodpecker 2, Downy Woodpecker 1, Northern Flicker 4, Red-eyed
Vireo 1, Blue Jay 25, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow,
Black-capped Chickadee 3, Tufted Titmouse 1, American
Robin 34, Gray Catbird 6, European Starling 55, Cedar Waxwing
26, Northern Cardinal 5, Red-winged
Blackbird 30, House Finch 2, American Goldfinch 11, House Sparrow 30
Sep 9 Magee Marsh Boardwalk, a quick one-way walk with a non-birder but still fantastic!: Canada
Goose, Wood Duck, Mallard, Pied-billed Grebe, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Green Heron, Bald Eagle 1, Red-tailed Hawk 1, Ring-billed Gull, Eastern Wood-Pewee 6, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher
1, Eastern
Phoebe 3, Warbling Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo 1, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Barn
Swallow, House Wren, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, Wood Thrush 1, American
Robin, Gray Catbird, European
Starling, Tennessee Warbler, Nashville Warbler,Northern Parula
1, Magnolia Warbler, Cape
May Warbler 2, Black-throated Blue Warbler
6, the males truly outstanding!, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler
1, American Redstart 10, Wilson's
Warbler 1 gorgeous male, Canada Warbler
1 gorgeous male, Northern
Cardinal, Rusty Blackbird, American Goldfinch but no Yellow Warblers and no Grackles, which must’ve taken off already for parts
south. A fawn, still
very small with spots, casually munched alongside the boardwalk, too.
Sep 13 Harlingen's Hugh Ramsey Park I was very distracted by the numerous butterflies and dragonflies
here today: 5 Buckeyes,Dainty Sulphur,Mestras, 4 GreatSouthernWhites, Lantana and Scrub-Hairstreaks, Mexican Bluewing,
White Peacocks,etc and even more distracting were the Broad-winged Hawks I kept scaring out of the trees in the park, the
first one at 9:50am and the last at 11:25am: Great Blue Heron 1, Sharp-shinned
Hawk 1, Cooper's Hawk 1, Harris's
Hawk 2, Broad-winged Hawk 26, Laughing Gull 4, White-winged Dove 37,
Mourning Dove 4, Inca Dove 1, White-tipped Dove 1, Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1, Common Nighthawk
1, Chimney Swift 4, Buff-bellied
Hummingbird 7, Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1, Golden-fronted Woodpecker 13, Ladder-backed
Woodpecker 3, Olive-sided Flycatcher
1, Brown-crested Flycatcher 1, Great Kiskadee 10, Couch's
Kingbird 5, White-eyed Vireo 1, Verdin
2, Bewick's Wren 6, Northern
Mockingbird 5, Curve-billed Thrasher 9,
Olive Sparrow 7, Northern
Cardinal 4, Red-winged Blackbird
1, Great-tailed Grackle 5, Baltimore Oriole
4, Lesser Goldfinch 2, House
Sparrow 3 Harlingen City Lake Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
104, Snowy Egret 3, Laughing Gull 19,
Forster's Tern 3, Tropical Kingbird 3, Great-tailed
Grackle 5, House Sparrow 30
Sep 14 Bentsen Hawk Watch Mary had called earlier in the week to say that Jesus had seen, and she
and Jose had caught an ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD, and that it was the same one that
was banded here at the park last year-- and sure enough it was at the feeders this morning. At the hawktower:
Plain Chachalaca 6, Northern
Bobwhite 1, Least Grebe 2, Pied-billed Grebe 4, Neotropic
Cormorant 1, Great Blue Heron 1, Turkey Vulture 20, White-tailed Kite 2, Harris's Hawk 2, Broad-winged
Hawk 194, Swainson's Hawk 1, American Kestrel 1, Common Moorhen 1, American
Coot 10, Killdeer 1, White-winged Dove 32, Mourning
Dove 4, Inca Dove 1, Common Ground-Dove 3, Groove-billed Ani 20, Chimney
Swift X, Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4, Ladder-backed Woodpecker
1, Couch's Kingbird 8, Green Jay 2, Barn Swallow 16, Yellow Warbler (Northern) 1, Olive Sparrow 2, Northern
Cardinal 3, Great-tailed Grackle 4, Hooded Oriole 1, Altamira Oriole 1, Baltimore Oriole 1 (which were gone from Ohio last
week). Looking through the menagerie that had collected while I was gone I found a lot of Gulf Fritillary chrysales, one of
which had already metamorphised into a flying adult. I let her loose, then explored the rest of the collection: still the
Black-striped Snake, a tiny Great Plains Rat Snake, a centipede capable of a vicious bite, and a wonderful caterpillar (pictured
above), the first I've seen of the Ello Sphinx! I hurried down to Mary's with
Tom to see her Broad-Banded Swallowtail in her yard, but no such luck. There was a Mournful Duskywing
among the many feeding on her duranta however. Five Black Witches and a beautiful Vine Sphinx were out in broad daylight,
with a Mexican Bluewing and a Malachite.
Sep 15 Bentsen My first Great Redheaded Centipede!
They get to be about 8" long, and uses poison to kill the moths and other bugs it eats, "In the mid 1920s, Dr. Baerg tested
the effect of the venom by inducing a centipede to bite one of his little fingers, leaving the fangs inserted for about four
seconds. The bite was followed by a sharp and strictly local pain, which began to subside noticeably after about 15 minutes.
In about two hours the pain was only very slight, but there was a general swelling in the finger. Three hours after the bite,
most symptoms had disappeared..." so it is poisonous, but terribly so for humans. But "...According to one story cited
by Dr. Baerg, an officer in the Confederate Army, while sleeping in his tent, was suddenly aroused by the creepy feeling of
a large centipede crawling on his chest. A number of spots of deep red, forming a broad streak, indicated the arthropod’s
passage across the man’s chest and abdomen. Violent pain and convulsions soon set in, accompanied by excessive swelling
in the bitten area. The victim fought with death for two days and then succumbed. The agony suffered by the bitten officer
was described by an eyewitness as the most frightful he had ever observed. The famed arthopod scientist J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson
once explained that 'centipedes seem to exert a weird fascination on the morbid appetites of the hysterical and insane.'"
so I'm not going to test the theories myself.
Sep 17 Lake Corpus Christi had pretty much the same birds we have. We were there for a meeting
so we had no time to bird at all, but we did happen to notice Mottled Duck 2, Blue-winged Teal 1, Neotropic Cormorant 1, Great Egret 1, Cattle Egret, Black Vulture, Turkey
Vulture, White-tailed
Hawk 1, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper, Laughing
Gull, Forster's Tern, Rock Pigeon, White-winged
Dove, Mourning Dove, White-tipped Dove, Greater Roadrunner 2, Belted Kingfisher,Golden-fronted
Woodpecker, LadderBacked Woodpecker,Barn Swallow, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher,
European Starling, Great-tailed Grackle. My
Harlingen backyard has had a BRAZILIAN SKIPPER in it for three days no.
Sep 18 Bentsen Driving in the service road to the office were two Kestrels, Bobwhites, Lark Sparrow,
Anis, Hooded Orioles... but then it got even better! Dennis Paulson, author of
the 2005 huge shorebird book, also probably the world's #1 dragonfly guy had just found the first Texan BlueStriped Spreadwing
at Santa Ana, as well as seen the rare Cream-Tipped Swampdamsel. He pulled out of his pocket a live Pale
Green Darner, and showed us all. A Banded Peacock, Two-Barred Flasher,
a Malachite, EIGHT Mexican Ground Squirrels in one spot-- great day. Very casual
birding, but did happen to notice: Plain Chachalaca, Northern
Bobwhite, Turkey Vulture, Osprey 2, American Kestrel 2, White-winged Dove, Mourning Dove, Inca Dove, Common Ground-Dove, Groove-billed Ani, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Black-chinned Hummingbird, Golden-fronted
Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Great Kiskadee, Couch's Kingbird (many in groups of 10, evidently ready to migrate), Green Jay,
Northern Mockingbird, Lark Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-winged Blackbird, Bronzed Cowbird,
Hooded Oriole, House Sparrow
Sep 19 Combes Hurricane Dolly and the recent three inches of rain has been good for birds along Expressway
77. In one spot: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 366, Fulvous Whistling-Duck 6, Least Grebe 1, Neotropic Cormorant
47, Anhinga 1, Great Blue Heron 2, Great Egret 94, Snowy Egret 56, Little Blue Heron
2, Tricolored Heron 1, Cattle Egret
328, Green Heron
1, Roseate Spoonbill 25, Wood Stork
35, Harris's Hawk 2, Crested
Caracara 1, American Coot 6, Black-necked Stilt 4, Least Sandpiper
250, Rock Pigeon, Mourning
Dove, Couch's Kingbird, Loggerhead
Shrike 1, Northern Mockingbird, RedWinged Blackbird, Great-tailed Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore
Oriole 5, House Sparrow
Sep 20 Harlingen Haven't seen a Queen caterpillar for some time-- this one's in my backyard.
Sept 22 Bentsen Monday was spectacular. Josh and I escorted the new South Padre Island World Birding
Center's newly-chosen leader around the park, having a great time in general, but also stumbling upon a BLUE-SPOTTED
COMET DARNER. Near the hawktower, this was the fourth US record, and I missed the photo opportunity
as it is so hard to auto-focus when the critter is in a tree twenty feet in the air! I was happy to point out
a Guava Skipper (my first of the season) to a group, extremely cooperative in contrast with
the Comet Darner, resting under a leaf for close-up photo ops. At least four Malachites and seven Banded Peacocks, ten White
Peacocks in one group alone, two Zebras leap-frogging one another, piles of forty or so Tawny Emperors, a Silver Emperor in
the park-- the butterflies are really showing up for the butterfly festival coming up. The very best part of this very
good day, however, was the wonderful CHECKERED GARTER SNAKE Josh found under our
Passionflower in the Turk's Cap Bush! This is only the second one I've ever seen, the first being eaten by an Indigo Snake.
Sep 24 Bentsen 5
Giant Swallowtails, 6 Great Southern Whites, 12 Cloudless Sulphurs, 15 Large Orange Sulphurs,1 ORANGE-BARRED SULPHUR, 5 Lyside
Sulphurs, 9 Southern Dogfaces, 1 TAILED ORANGE, 7 Little Yellows, 1 Mimosa Yellow, 5 Gray Hairstreaks, 2 Dusky-Blue Groundstreaks,
2 Mallow Scrub-Hairstreaks, 1 Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak, 3 Clytie Ministreaks, 2 Western Pygmy-Blues, 1 Ceraunus Blue, 3 Fatal
Metalmarks, 43 Red-Bordered Metalmarks, 270 American Snouts, 20 Gulf Fritillaries, 16 Bordered Patches, 2 Zebra Heliconians,
1 CRIMSON PATCH, 1 THEONA CHECKERSPOT, 1 VESTA CRESCENT, 25 Phaon Crescents, 1 Pale-Banded Crescent, 19 Pearl Crescents, 60
White Peacocks, 7 BANDED PEACOCKS, 1 MALACHITE, 5 Common Mestras, 1 RED RIM, MEXICAN BLUEWING, 36 Tropical Leafwings, 4 Empress Leilias, 104 Tawny Emperors, 6
Queens, 1 Soldier, 1 Carolina Satyr, 15 Brown Longtails, 1 WHITE-STRIPED LONGTAIL, 23 Sickle-Winged Skippers, 11 Brown-Banded
Skippers, 14 White-Patched Skippers, 3 White-Checkered Skippers, 1 Tropical Checkered-Skipper, 15 Laviana White-Skippers,
77 Clouded Skippers, 19 Fiery Skippers, 5 Whirlabouts, 7 Common Mellanas, 18 Celia’s Roadside-Skippers-- our Butterfly
Walk for the day.
Sep 25 Resaca de Las Palmas, Brownsville My first visit to this newest State Park, Resaca de la Palma,
was a computer class on Outlook. The class was gentle, and perhaps I learned a few new things, but the best part was getting
the park preview before its opening December 7. An Orange-Barred Sulphur, low and not shy at all about showing us his beautiful
orange upperside spots, and a Blue Metalmark (shown above) were the highlights of actual fauna.
Sep 27 rural LaJoya It was great fun, the ranch was really neat when it was pitch black
outside except for the bbq fire, with a RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD, a couple Screech Owls, a Tropical Checkered-Skipper, Ani, Caracara,
Kestrels, Couch's Kingbirds, Kiskadees, etc
Sep 29 Resaca de Las Palmas Brownsville Josh, Jose and I were "working" today on a dragonfly-training
on this my second visit to this State Park, with a powerpoint presentation and walk. It was great fellowship and great fun
and great bugs. The rare THREE-STRIPED DASHER was the best dragonfly in
my humble opinion. Josh thought the TWELVE-SPOTTED SKIMMER was perhaps a first
photo record for Cameron County! Josh, Jose and I all got great photos of this bug. Only one damselfly: Rambur's Forktail.
Other dragonflies included Common Green Darner, Red-Tailed Pennant, Pin-Tailed Pondhawk, Eastern Pondhawk, Band-Winged Dragonlet,
Thornbush-, Spot-Tailed-, and Blue Dashers, Roseate Skimmer, Wandering Glider, Eastern Amberwing and Black and Red Saddlebags.
The only mammal was a Coyote. Reptiles/amphibians were a Ribbon Snake, Couch's Spadefoot, Gulf Coast Toad and Six-lined Racerunners.
Twining Tortaphonia was a new plant. Silvered Prominent caterpillars were on the balloonvine look-alike. Birds: Neotropical
Cormorant, Least/Pied-Billed Grebes, Black-Bellied Whistling-Ducks, Anis, Snowy Egrets,Kiskadees, Mockingbirds, Mourning and
White-Winged Doves, Green Jays, Gray and Broad-Winged Hawks, White-Tailed Kites (three in one spot), my first VERMILION
FLYCATCHER of the year, an immature male, RINGED KINGFISHER, Couch's Kingbirds, a Yellow Warbler,
Barn Swallows, Coots, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. Butterflies were incidental but still good with over a dozen Mexican Bluewings,
over a dozen Band-Celled Sisters, a Blue Metal mark, a MIMOSA SKIPPER, Giant Swallowtail,
Great Southern Whites, Little Yellow, Southern Dogface, Large Orange and Cloudless Sulphurs, Tawny Emperors, White Peacocks,
Bordered Patches, Red-Bordered and Fatal Metalmarks, Carolina Satyr, Brown Longtails, Zebra Longwing, JULIA
HELICONIAN, Clouded and Fiery Skippers, Laviana White-Skipper, White Checkered-Skipper, Sickle-Winged Skipper, Southern
Skipperlings, Celia's Roadside-Skipper. Insects included a Unicorn Mantis, an Assassin Bug, Backswimmers, Diving Beetles,
Eye Gnats, Wooly Hackberry Aphid, a Tussock Moth Caterpillars, Bordered Patch caterpillars... probably more. I can't believe
I remembered all of that!
Sep 30 Bentsen Mexican or Tamaulipan Hook-nosed Snake
Adults are from 7 to 11 inches long, so this tiny snake is most likely truly an adult. They eat mostly spiders
and centipedes, which explains why ours was found in the park ladies' restroom <grin>. Slow-moving and harmless,
its greatest defense is a popping sound it makes with its cloaca (that is--, farting) ! I couldn't get him to make any
noise at all though.
Bentsen State Park Sightings for the month of Sep 2008 **area specialties
Mexican
Duck
Mottled
Duck
BlueWinged
Teal—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
**Plain Chachalaca
Northern
Bobwhite
Least
Grebe
Pied-Billed
Grebe
Anhinga—
Great Blue Heron—
10
Great Egret
Cattle
Egret—Josh 9/26
Green
Heron
Turkey
Vulture
Black
Vulture
White-Tailed
Kite
MISSISSIPPI KITE—Josh 9/1
Cooper’s
Hawk
Gray
Hawk
Harris’s
Hawk
20
Broad-Winged Hawk
Swainson’s
Hawk
**Crested
Caracara—
American
Kestrel—9/14
Sora—Mary
Beth Stowe 9/19
Common
Moorhen
American
Coot—
Killdeer
Solitary
Sandpiper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
White-Winged
Dove
30
Mourning Dove
Inca
Dove—
Common
Ground-Dove
**White-Tipped
Dove
Yellow-Billed
Cuckoo
Greater
Roadrunner
**Groove-Billed
Ani
BARN
OWL—Josh Night Hike 9/12
Eastern
Screech-Owl
ELF
OWL—Jose Night Hike 9/3
40
Lesser Nighthawk—9/11 Night Hike
Common
Nighthawk—9/11 Night Hike
**Common
Pauraque—9/11 Night Hike
CHUCK-WILL’s-WIDOW—9/11
Night Hike
**Buff-Bellied
Hummingbird
Ruby-Throated
Hummingbird
ALLEN’S HUMMINGBIRD—Jesus Franco
9/9
Black-Chinned
Hummingbird
**Ringed
Kingfisher
Green
Kingfisher—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
50
**Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-Backed
Woodpecker
**Northern
Beardless-Tyrannulet
Black
Phoebe—Josh
GREAT-CRESTED
FLYCATCHER—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
Brown-Crested
Flycatcher
**Great
Kiskadee
**Couch’s
Kingbird
Eastern
Kingbird—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
Scissor-Tailed
Flycatcher
60
Loggerhead Shrike—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
White-Eyed
Vireo
**Green
Jay
Bank
Swallow—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
Cave
Swallow
Barn
Swallow
Black-Crested
Titmouse—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
BLUE-GRAY
GNATCATCHER—Josh 9/15
Northern
Mockingbird—John 8/4
**Long-Billed
Thrasher—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
70
YELLOW WARBLER
**Olive
Sparrow
Lark
Sparrow
Northern
Cardinal
Blue
Grosbeak –9/22 John/Josh/Cate Hawktower
PAINTED
BUNTING—9/22 John/Josh/Cate Hawktower
Indigo
Bunting
Red-Winged
Blackbird
Great-Tailed
Grackle
Bronzed
Cowbird
80
Hooded Oriole
**Altamira Oriole
Baltimore
Oriole—Hawk Watch 9/14/08
House
Sparrow
Reptiles/Amphibians
BLACK-STRIPED SNAKE
Blue
Spiny Lizard
Bullsnake—9/13
CHECKERED GARTER SNAKE—Josh
9/22
Cane
Toad
Couch’s
Spadefoot
Great Plains Rat Snake
Gulf Coast Toad
Mediterranean
Gecko
Rio Grande Leopard Frog
Texas Spiny Lizard
Texas Spotted Whiptail
Texas Tortoise
Butterflies
Pipevine
Swallowtail—Josh 9/6
BLACK
SWALLOWTAIL—Mike Rickard 9/10
Giant
Swallowtail—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Great
Southern White—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Giant
White—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
ORANGE
SULPHUR—Mike Rickard 9/3
Cloudless
Sulphur—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Large
Orange Sulphur——Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
ORANGE-BARRED SULPHUR—Mike Rickard 9/3
10
Lyside Sulphur——Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Dainty
Sulphur—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Southern
Dogface—Mary Beth Stowe 9/19
TAILED
ORANGE—Mike Rickard 9/3
Little
Yellow—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Sleepy
Orange—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Gray
Hairstreak—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Dusky
Blue Groundstreak
MARIUS HAIRSTREAK—Martin Reid 9/5
Mallow
Scrub-Hairstreak—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
20
Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak—Mike Rickard 9/3
CLENCH’S GREENSTREAK--Mike Rickard 9/3
Clytie
Ministreak—Mike Rickard 9/3
Western
Pygmy-Blue—Mike Rickard 9/3
Ceraunus
Blue—Mike Rickard 9/3
Fatal
Metalmark—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Rounded
Metalmark—Mike Rickard 9/3
Red-Bordered
Metalmark—Mike Rickard 9/3
RED-BORDERED PIXIE—Josh 9/6
American
Snout—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Gulf
Fritillary——Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
30
Mexican Fritillary—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
ZEBRA HELICONIAN—Josh 9/19
Bordered
Patch—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
CRIMSON PATCH—Josh 9/6
ROSITA PATCH—Josh 9/6
Theona Checkerspot—Tom Pendleton 9/12
Elada Checkerspot—Mary Beth Stowe 9/18
Vesta
Crescemt—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Phaon
Crescent—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Pale-Banded
Crescent——Mike Rickard 9/3
40
Pearl Crescent—Mike Rickard 9/3
Red Admiral—Josh 9/12
TROPICAL BUCKEYE—Mike Rickard 9/3
White
Peacock—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
BANDED PEACOCK
MALACHITE—John
9/14
Common
Mestra—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
RED RIM—Butterfly Walk 9/24
MEXICAN
BLUEWING—Anne Toal 9/1
Tropical
Leafwing—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
50
Hackberry Emperor—Josh 9/6
Empress
Leilia—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Tawny
Emperor—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Silver
Emperor—Josh 9/14
Queen—Mary
Beth Stowe 9/1
Soldier—Mike
Rickard 9/3
DORANTES
LONGTAIL—Mike Rickard 9/10
Brown
Longtail—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
WHITE-STRIPED
LONGTAIL—Mike Rickard 9/10
Zilpa
Longtail—Mike Rickard 9/3
60
Common Sootywing—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Texas Powdered-Skipper—Butterfly
Walk 9/3
Sickle-Winged
Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Brown-Banded
Skipper——Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
White-Patched
Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
POTRILLO SKIPPER—Tom Pendleton 9/12
HORACE’S DUSKYWING—Mike Rickard 9/9
Mournful Duskywing—Mike Rickard 9/3
White
Checkered-Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Tropical
Checkered-Skipper—Mike Rickard 9/3
70 ERICHSON’S WHITE-SKIPPER—Mike Rickard 9/8
Laviana
White-Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Turk’s
Cap White-Skipper—Mike Rickard 9/3
GOLD-HEADED SCALLOPWING—Mike Rickard 9/3
Julia’s
Skipper—Mike Rickard 9/3
Fawn-Spotted
Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Clouded
Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Southern Skipperling—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Fiery
Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Southern
Broken-Dash—Josh 9/6
80 Whirlabout—Mike Rickard 9/3
COMMON
MELLANA——Mike Rickard 9/3
NYSA
ROADSIDE-SKIPPER—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Celia’s
Roadside-Skipper—Mary Beth Stowe 9/1
Eufala
Skipper—Josh 9/6
PURPLE-WASHED SKIPPER—Mike Rickard 9/10
BRAZILIAN
SKIPPER—Mike Rickard 9/19
Mammals
Bat
Black-Tailed
Jackrabbit
Bobcat
Collared
Peccary
Coyote
Eastern
Cottontail
Mexican
Ground Squirrel
Nine-Banded
Armadillo
Northern
Raccoon
Dragonflies
Smoky
Rubyspot—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Amelia’s
Threadtail—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Coral
FrontedThreadtail—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Powdered
Dancer—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Blue-Fronted
Dancer—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Blue-Ringed
Dancer—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
BLUE-SPOTTED COMET DARNERJosh 9/22 3rd US RECORD!
Caribbean Darner—Martin Reid 9/22
Dusky
Dancer—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
10
DoubleStriped Bluet—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Neotropical
Bluet—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Orange
Bluet—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Rambur’s
Forktail—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Caribbean Yellowface—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Common
Green Darner—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Broad-Striped
Forceptail—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
Ringed
Forceptail—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
RedTailed
Pennant—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Four-Spotted
Pennant—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
20
Swift Setwing—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
Black
Setwing—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Eastern Pondhawk—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
PinTailed
Pondhawk—Josh
BandWinged
Dragonlet—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
SpotTailed
Dasher—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
Thornbush
Dasher—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Carmine
Skimmer—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
Roseate
Skimmer—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Blue
Dasher—Dragonfly Walk 9/26
30
Wandering Glider—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Eastern
Amberwing—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Slough
Amberwing—Josh 9/25
Scarlet-Tailed Skimmer, Planiplax sanguiniventris—Ed Lam 9/4
Black
Saddlebags—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Red
Saddlebags—Dragonfly Walk 9/12
Other Insects/Invertebrates
Ant
Lion Backswimmers—Josh 9/18 Beaded Lacewing (Lomamyia sp.) Black Slug—Jennifer 9/25
Black
Witch –Josh 9/19
Bloodshot-eyed
Moth (Syssphinx heiligbrodti)—Josh 9/19
Chamaeclea basiocrea—Josh
9/11
Conchylodes
salamisalis—John 9/14
Crab
Spider
Cicada
Gigas
Cyna
Moth—Mary Beth Stowe 9/18
Desert
Termites
Dichopetala
(Short-Winged Katydid)
Dipthera
festiva, Hieryoglyphic Moth –9/20 Jose
Bloodshot-Eyed
Moth—Josh
Dobsonfly
(Corydalus sp.)—Josh 9/19
Dot-Lined
Angle—Mary Beth Stowe 9/18
Ello
Sphinx (Caterpillar)
Fig
Sphinx (Pachylia ficus)—Josh 9/19
FORBES SILKMOTH—Josh 9/27
GIANT DESERT CENTIPEDE—Carol 9/14
Hairy
Panther (Pachycondyla villosa) Ants—Josh 9/26
Harlequin
Flower Scarab—Josh 9/27
Harvester
Ants
Heliocheilus toralis—Josh
9/11
Indomitible Melipotes—Mary
Beth Stowe 9/18
Io Moth
(Automeris io)—Josh 9/19
Ladder-like flower bups (Acmaeodera
scalaris)—Josh 9/12
Lantana
Control Moth—Mary Beth Stowe 9/27
Mexican
Unicorn Mantis (Phyllovates chlorophaea)—Josh 9/28
Mouse-colored
Lichen Moth—Mary Beth Stowe 9/18
Obscure
Sphinx (Erynnyis obscura—Mary Beth Stowe 9/18
Red-vented flower bug (Acmaeodera
haemorrhoa)—Josh 9/12
RUSTIC SPHINX—Josh
9/18
Southern
Pink Moth (Pyrausta inornatalis)—Josh 9/12 (pink Crambid moth
Small-winged Katydids—Mary Beth 9/22
Snail
Staphylinid beetles—Josh 9/18 Tachinid
Fly of the genus Cylindromyia—Josh 9/12
Tarantula
Hawk
Tortoise
Beetles & Larvae
Vine
Sphinx –Josh 9/19 Yellow-winged Pareuchaetes
insulate
Fish
Gambusia
Pencilfish
Channel
Catfish
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