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Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties, 31 August 2003
From trip to Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata and Jim Hogg Counties, 29-31 August 2003
A complete report of the trip follows.
Falcon State Park, Zapata County
7:00 a.m. to about 8:30 a.m., 31 August 2003
Black Saddlebags, Tramea lacerata
in flight
Falcon State Park, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Snowy Egret, Egretta thula
Falcon State Park, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Reddish Egret, Egretta rufescens
with Laughing Gull, Larus atricilla and Forster's Tern, Sterna forsteri
Falcon State Park, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Least Sandpiper, Calidris minutilla
Falcon State Park, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Pond area next to Zapata County Library, Zapata County
9:00 a.m. to about 12:00 p.m., 31 August 2003
27º 54.123' 99º 16.278'
Rambur's Forktail, Ischnura ramburii
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
unknown dragonfly sp.
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Thornbush Dasher, Micrathyria hagenii
on grass sp.
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis
on grass sp.
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Eastern Amberwing, Perithemis tenera
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Eastern Pondhawk, Erythemis simplicicollis
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Roseate Skimmer, Orthemis ferruginea
on Cattail sp. Typha sp. and grass sp.
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Common Whitetail, Plathemis lydia
on Mimosa?, cf. Mimosa sp.
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Giant Swallowtail, Papilio cresphontes
puddling (above), on Goat's-beard, Clematis drummondii (below)
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Western Pygmy-Blue, Brephidium exile
on grass
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Ceraunus Blue, Hemiargus ceraunus
on grass
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Celia's Roadside-Skipper, Amblyscirtes celia
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Identification by Mike Overton
Red Crayfish sp.
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Great Kiskadee, Pitangus sulfuratus
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Blue Grosbeak, Passerina caerulea
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
San Ygnacio Town Square, Zapata County
12:30 p.m. to about 1:00 p.m., 31 August 2003
27º 02' 39.4” 99º 26' 31.3”
Black Swallowtail, Papilio polyxenes
female
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Eufala Skipper, Lerodea eufala
on Desert Lantana, Lantana macropoda
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Fiery Skipper, Hylephila phyleus
on Traling Lantana, Lantana montevidensis
Zapata County Library pond, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary, Zapata County
1:15 p.m. to about 2:00 p.m., 31 August 2003
27º 02' 36.9” 99º 26' 37.4”
Powdered Dancer, Argia moesta
on grass sp.
San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Large Orange Sulphur, Phoebis agarithe
on Texas Lantana, Lantana horrida
San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
American Snout, Libytheana carinenta larvata
on Texas Lantana, Lantana horrida
San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Identification by Mike Overton
Common Buckeye, Junonia coenia
San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Cottontail sp. prob. Desert, Sylvilagus cf. auduboni
San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary, Zapata County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
FM 649, N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County
2:45 p.m. to about 3:30 p.m., 31 August 2003
27º 15.240' 98º 56.757'
Eastern Pondhawk, Erythemis simplicicollis
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
American Snout, Libytheana carinenta larvata
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Identification by Mike Overton
Ceraunus Blue, Hemiargus ceraunus
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak, Strymon istapa
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Common Mestra, Mestra amymone
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Gulf Fritillary, Agraulis vanillae
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Ocola Skipper, Panoquina ocola
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Eufala Skipper, Lerodea eufala
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Fiery Skipper, Hylephila phyleus
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Skipper sp.
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Moth sp.
and green friend on grass sp.
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Asilid robber fly sp., probably Laphria sp.
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 3 miles N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Identification by Mike Overton
FM 649, just N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County
3:45 p.m. to about 4:00 p.m., 31 August 2003
27º 14.437' 98º 56.017'
Fiery Skipper, Hylephila phyleus
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
FM 649, ca. 1 mile N of Jct. FM 3073, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, Jim Hogg County
4:30 p.m. to about 5:30 p.m., 31 August 2003
27º 14.205' 98º 55.297'
Large Orange Sulphur (white form), Phoebis agarithe
female on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Empress Leilia, Asterocampa leilia
At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Queen, Danaus gilippus
on Arroyo Twinevine, Sarcostemma cynanchoides
At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
Fatal Metalmark, Calephelis nemesis australis
on Guayacan?, cf. Porlieria angustifolia
At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Identification by Mike Overton
Turk's Cap White-Skipper, Heliopetes macaira
on Doveweed sp., Croton sp.
At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, Jim Hogg County, Texas, 31 August 2003
Not previously documented for the county (according to USGS records)
photos © by tony gallucci
Headed home through Duval County
6:00 p.m., 31 August 2003
Texas Highway 16, Duval County, Texas, 31 August 2003
photos © by tony gallucci
7 September 2003 (v.12)
I made a weekend run to the Valley in an attempt to see some of the butterfly specialties in the central Valley and then to look for Odonates in Zapata, Jim Hogg and Duval Counties. The trip was a great success, thanks especially to some wonderful guides, and some Olives (Cordia boissieri), Anacuas (Ehretia anacua), and Arroyo Twinevines (~ Climbing Milkweed/Sarcostemma cynanchoides). I ran out of film and into heavy rain at my last stop in Jim Hogg County and had to skip Duval, but it was late anyway and hungry animals at home beckoned.
After a late start I drove most of the night Friday from Kerrville to San Juan. I was at Santa Ana at dawn Saturday and was rewarded with several fine new Leps for me and a couple of new Odes as well. Met Matt Heindel there and he was kind enough to direct me towards a Red-bordered Metalmark he had found. I was unable to relocate it, but did find another metalmark, well-worn, that i identified as a Rounded (commentary desired and welcome). Butterflies were in decent variety (Julia Heliconian, Zebra Heliconian, Mimosa Skipper, Celia's Roadside-Skipper), but the only large numbers were of Laviana White-skippers and, on one 100-yard stretch of the driving loop, hundreds/thousands of Snouts. Eight Groove-billed Ani's were stumbling around on the road trying to catch the Snouts. Comical bird in a comical situation.
I then drove to Bentsen. On the way, at Hidalgo, i ran into (literally) clouds of Snouts and quite a few Sulphurs all moving southeast. Hundreds of course were DOR. This lasted until i had to turn north toward McAllen and US 83.
Bentsen was crawling with Snouts. I worked the olives at the entrance, finding two White-angled Sulphurs among the many Cloudless and Large Orange Sulphurs. I then went to the garden, where Jan Dauphin, Barbara Ribble and Derek Muschalek found me, identified some good things for me and then let me join them as they showed me some other great things. First we stopped back at the Olives, joined by David Dauphin, to see the White-angled Sulphurs and found at least four, perhaps more, there.
Then to the NABA park where a Gray Cracker they had previously found was still glued to the trunk of a hackberry. I got some stout pictures of it. Charles Jones joined up with us there for a while. We also visited the Duranta hedge at Mission West RV Park, and then the Mission city parks.
Dave and Jan have a wonderful new house in Mission and are landscaping with an amazing array of native butterfly food plants. Their house will probably be in all future Lep-finding guides!
I then headed west, checking out Charlie's spot below the Roma bridge, only to find it too late for much to be flying, although i did find a couple of nice Odes. Then i went to Salineño, hoping for some cool birds headed to roost, and photographed a Zone-tailed Hawk (seems odd at this location in August).
I spent the night at Falcon State Park, and started the next morning along their shoreline. Black Saddlebags there, and a Reddish Egret (photographed) among the more common birds.
Zapata was next on my list, and i stopped there at the pond next to the library. The Odes were excellent and i photographed a number of new things. Snout numbers were high along the river here as well, increasing on the road north. They became so numerous along the road that i counted by tens the number of dead Snouts on the highway for one mile, for a total of 1340. This level of movement (and death) continued for four miles outside of San Ygnacio. Once away from the Rio Grande by more than a couple miles or so, the Snouts dropped to virtually nil (one here and there at a flower).
In San Ygnacio i stopped first at the square with its planters of purple lantana and found a few things, and photographed a nice female Black Swallowtail. Driving the streets i found a couple of blooming Anacuas, crawling with thousands of Snouts. A gust of wind on one tree made it burst like a dandelion. At the seedeater sanctuary, the butterflies were in good variety and number, though a Common Buckeye was the only new thing for me for the trip. The garden had as nice and varied a group of blooming plants as i saw anywhere else in the valley. I also had two male and two female seedeaters there (and had one male at the Zapata library also).
Jim Hogg and Duval Counties were next in my plans - looking for Odes. There's a reason there are few Ode records there - not much water. Instead i got distracted by the lines of Arroyo Twinevine on the fences in Jim Hogg County. Derek Muschalek had mentioned Saturday the value of this plant as a nectar source (and when i returned home found a post from him about it as well on TexButterflies). So i turned around and visited the first i saw, and then a second and third. Among the better things found were Ocola Skipper, Turk's Cap White-Skipper and Fatal Metalmark. By then rain was threatening, i was out of film (disk space actually) and i headed home. In the meantime i passed dozens of stands of this vine in bloom in both Jim Hogg and Duval Counties. Someone working this weekend might find some great things in those counties, and both NEED to be worked.
As always i crave corrections and discussion on identifications i have made of any of these critters. Thanks to Mike Overton and Dan Hardy for just such corrections.
(USGS) = previously undocumented records according to the USGS website and John Abbott's Odonata Central. I am aware that the USGS site is behind and that Dr. Abbott is redesigning his site, but both remain the most accurate publicly available references i know, and thus their usage as a guide to places needing work and rough working documents for what needs confirming.
* = Photographed (sometimes poorly); pictures visible on my website at:
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/margaret/203/id65.htm for 30 August 2003
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/margaret/203/id68.htm for 31 August 2003
Included below is the usual list of the additional critters seen on the trip.
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30 August 2003
TX:Hidalgo Co., Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, including the front garden, the butterfly garden at headquarters, A and B trails, the old manager's residence, and the driving loop by car with occasional stops
[with Matt Heindel part of the time]
LEPIDOPTERA
1 dark butterfly sp.
*1 Pipevine Swallowtail
10 Giant Swallowtail
80 Sulphur sp.
1 Little Yellow
*1 Cloudless Sulphur
*1 Large Orange Sulphur
*1 cf. Rounded Metalmark
*1 Julia Heliconian
*1 Zebra Heliconian
*1 Leafwing sp. , probably Tropical Leafwing
4 Common Mestra
*3 Gulf Fritillary
*11 Phaon Crescent
1 Tawny Emperor
1 Antonia Hackberry Emperor
*1000+ Snout sp.
*2 Carolina Satyr
2 Queen
*30 Laviana White-Skipper
*2 Tropical Checkered-Skipper
*2 Mimosa Skipper
*2 Southern Broken-Dash
*4 Clouded Skipper
*8 Celia's Roadside Skipper
1 Black Witch
ODONATA
2 Common Green Darner
2 red skimmer sp.
*1 Needham's Skimmer
*4 Roseate Skimmer
*10 Eastern Pondhawk
*1 Black Setwing
1 Striped Saddlebags
2 Red Saddlebags
4 Black Saddlebags
IN/VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
+ White Cactus Snail
1 Tarantula Hawk
16 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
4 Six-lined Racerunner
1 Rose-bellied Lizard
12 small Sceloporus sp.
5 large Sceloporus sp.
1 Hook-billed Kite
*6 Plain Chachalaca
1 Solitary Sandpiper
15 Upland Sandpiper
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
30 Groove-billed Ani
14 White-tipped Dove
1 Buff-bellied Hummingbird
1 Rufous Hummingbird
*1 Ringed Kingfisher
2 Brown-crested Flycatcher
1 Willow Flycatcher
1 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
22 Great Kiskadee
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1 Clay-colored Robin
1 White-eyed Vireo
1 Black-crested Titmouse
4 Carolina Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Mourning Warbler
60 Olive Sparrow
1 Dickcissel
1 Fox Squirrel
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Hidalgo Co., Bensten RGV State Park, including the entrance headquarters olive trees, and the butterfly garden
[with Jan and David Dauphin, Derek Muschalek, Barbara Ribble part of the time]
LEPIDOPTERA
*5 Giant Swallowtail
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
*4+ WHITE ANGLED-SULPHUR
8 Large Orange Sulphur
4 Cloudless Sulphur
*16 Lyside Sulphur
1 Ceraunus Blue
*1 Zebra Heliconian
*20,000+ Snout sp.
1 Gulf Fritillary
2 Common Mestra
2 Queen
1 Common/White Checkered-Skipper
11 Tropical Checkered-Skipper
*2 Southern Broken Dash
1 Celia's Roadside-Skipper
*1 Eufala Skipper
IN/VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
1 Tricolored Heron
*6 Plain Chachalaca
*12 Groove-billed Ani
6 White-tipped Dove
2 Great Kiskadee
8 Green Jay
8 Olive Sparrow
1 Altamira Oriole
*8 Javelina
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Hidalgo County Co., NABA Park, just east of Bentsen
[with Jan and David Dauphin, Barbara Ribble, Derek Muschalek, and Charles Jones]
LEPIDOPTERA
3 Giant Swallowtail
1 Ceraunus Blue
1 Gulf Fritillary
1 Tawny Emperor
1 Tropical Leafwing
*1 GRAY CRACKER
1 Laviana White-Skipper
1 Clouded Skipper
ODONATA
*1 dragonfly sp. (originally posted as a Common Sanddragon, which would be new for the county, retracted upon the questioning of Bob Behrstock)
2 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Red Saddlebags
IN/VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
*1 Swainson's Hawk
1 Northern Bobwhite
1 White-eyed Vireo
3 Dickcissel
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Hidalgo Co., Mission RV West Duranta hedge
[with Jan and David Dauphin, Barbara Ribble, and Derek Muschalek]
LEPIDOPTERA
1 Giant Swallowtail
1 Cloudless Sulphur
1 Little Yellow
4 Lyside Sulphur
1 Western Pygmy-Blue
1 Gray Hairstreak
*1 White Peacock
1 Monarch
2 Queen
*2 Brown Longtail
1 Whirlabout
1 Fiery Skipper
1 Southern Skipperling
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Hidalgo Co., Mission, old Lucy's Garden
[with Jan and David Dauphin, Barbara Ribble, and Derek Muschalek]
LEPIDOPTERA
3 Phaon Crescent
3 Queen
1 Eufala Skipper
2 Fiery Skipper
1 Southern Skipperling
ODONATA
1 Roseate Skimmer
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Hidalgo Co., Mission, New City Hall Garden
[with Jan and David Dauphin, Barbara Ribble, and Derek Muschalek]
LEPIDOPTERA
1 Giant Swallowtail
*1 Little Yellow
1 Cloudless Sulphur
1 Bordered Patch
3 Queen
*1 Soldier
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Starr Co., Below and west of Roma International Bridge
LEPIDOPTERA
1 Giant Swallowtail
10 Snout sp.
1 skipper sp.
ODONATA
*1 dragonfly sp. (originally posted as a Common Sanddragon, which would be new for the county, retracted upon the questioning of Bob Behrstock)
*1 Common Green Darner
2 Eastern Pondhawk
* * * * * * *
30 August 2003
TX: Starr Co., Salineño
LEPIDOPTERA
30 Snout sp.
ODONATA
*1 Powdered Dancer
1 Eastern Ringtail
*2 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Black Setwing
VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
2 Little Blue Heron
1 Tricolored Heron
*1 Zone-tailed Hawk
1 Laughing Gull
1 Belted Kingfisher
2 Great Kiskadee
10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
* * * * * * *
31 August 2003
TX: Zapata Co., Falcon State Park, Lakeshore near boat ramp
LEPIDOPTERA
60 Snout sp.
ODONATA
*3 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
2 Red Saddlebags (USGS)
VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
300+ Tiger Beetle sp.
4 Largemouth Bass
12 Common Carp
150 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
2 puddle duck sp.
300 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Great Egret
*4 Snowy Egret
*1 Reddish Egret
2 Cattle Egret
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Northern Bobwhite
1 Black Skimmer
*50 Laughing Gull
*12 Forster's Tern
2 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Spotted Sandpiper
*10 Least Sandpiper
18 Upland Sandpiper
1 Great Horned Owl
2 Lesser Nighthawk
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Wilson's Warbler
25 Dickcissel
2 Eastern Meadowlark
3 Coyote
* * * * * * *
31 August 2003
TX: Zapata Co., Pond area at Zapata County Library
26º 54' 02.4” 99º 16' 16.7”
LEPIDOPTERA
2 Pipevine Swallowtail
*5 Giant Swallowtail
1 Lyside Sulphur
4 Cloudless Sulphur
*2 Ceraunus Blue
*2 Western Pygmy Blue
10 Snout sp.
2 Gulf Fritillary
2 Queen
1 skipper sp.
1 duskywing sp.
1 Southern Skipperling
*1 Celia's Roadside-Skipper (USGS)
ODONATA
*3 Rambur's Forktail
2 Familiar Bluet
1 Powdered Dancer
1 cf. Comanche Dancer
8 Common Green Darner
1 river cruiser sp.
*14 Roseate Skimmer (USGS)
*20 Eastern Pondhawk (USGS)
*18 Blue Dasher (USGS)
*3 Eastern Amberwing
3 yellow skimmer sp.
1 red skimmer sp.
1 light blue skimmer sp.
*8 Common Whitetail (USGS)
*3 Thornbush Dasher (USGS)
1 Band-winged Dragonlet
1 Four-spotted Pennant (USGS)
12 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
10 Red Saddlebags (USGS)
IN/VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
20 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
100 Bullfrog
3 Red-eared Slider
1 Diamond-backed Water Snake
10 Northern Bobwhite
10 Upland Sandpiper
8 Chimney Swift
1 Belted Kingfisher
*10 Great Kiskadee
1 Marsh Wren
1 Common Yellowthroat
*1m Blue Grosbeak
1m White-collared Seedeater
1m Bullock's Oriole
* * * * * * *
31 August 2003
TX: Zapata Co., San Ygnacio town square
27º 02' 39.4” 99º 26' 31.3”
LEPIDOPTERA
2 Giant Swallowtail
*1 Black Swallowtail
1 Pipevine Swallowtail
1 Large Orange Sulphur
1 Ceraunus Blue
1 Bordered Patch
1 Red-spotted Purple
*4 Fiery Skipper
*1 Eufala Skipper
ODONATA
6 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
2 Green Jay
* * * * * * *
31 August 2003
TX: Zapata Co., San Ygnacio White-collared Seedeater Sanctuary
27º 02' 36.9” 99º 26' 37.4”
LEPIDOPTERA
2 Giant Swallowtail
2 Cloudless Sulphur
*10 Large Orange Sulphur
1 Blue sp.
10 Phaon Crescent (USGS)
2000 Snout sp.
*1+ American Snout
1 Bordered Patch
*1 Common Buckeye
1 Gulf Fritillary
1 Queen
1 Checkered-Skipper sp.
1 Eufala Skipper
2 Fiery Skipper
ODONATA
*20 Powdered Dancer
2 Roseate Skimmer (USGS)
6 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
IN/VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
1 White-tipped Dove
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2 Black-crested Titmouse
2 Olive Sparrow
4 White-collared Seedeater
*1 cottontail sp. (prob. Desert Cottontail)
* * * * * * *
31 August 2003
TX: Jim Hogg Co., FM 649, N of Jct. FM 3073, blooming Arroyo Twinevine on fenceline
27º 15' 14.4” 98º 56' 45.4”
LEPIDOPTERA
*4 Pipevine Swallowtail
1 Giant Swallowtail
*12 Ceraunus Blue
*1 Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak (USGS)
*4 Gulf Fritillary
*2 Snout sp.
*1 Common Mestra
*6 Fiery Skipper (USGS)
*4 Eufala Skipper
*2 Ocola Ckipper (USGS)
*5 dark skipper sp.
ODONATA
1 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
*1 Eastern Pondhawk (USGS)
VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
2 Chihuahuan Raven
2 Dickcissel
1 Cactus Wren
* * * * * * *
31 August 2003
TX: Jim Hogg Co., FM 649, just N of Jct. FM 3073, blooming Arroyo Twinevine on fenceline
27º 14' 26.2” 98º 56' 01.0”
LEPIDOPTERA
3 Pipevine Swallowtail
30 Ceraunus Blue
4 Gulf Fritillary
2 Queen
*3 Fiery Skipper (USGS)
2 dark skipper sp.
4 Eufala Skipper
ODONATA
1 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
1 Red Saddlebags (USGS)
VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
5 Upland Sandpiper
1 Yellow-breasted Chat
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31 August 2003
TX: Jim Hogg Co., At canyon cut marsh on FM 3073, W of FM 649, creek/marsh in canyon bottom with blooming Arroyo Twinevine and
Goat's-beard
27º 14' 12.3” 98º 55' 17.8”
LEPIDOPTERA
6 Pipevine Swallowtail
2 Giant Swallowtail
2 Lyside Sulphur
2 Orange Sulphur
*1 Large Orange Sulphur (white form female)
20 Ceraunus Blue
*1 Fatal Metalmark
2 Gulf Fritillary
10 Common Mestra
*1 Empress Leilia (USGS)
*5 Queen
2 Soldier (USGS)
1 Fiery Skipper
*1 Turk's Cap White Skipper (USGS)
ODONATA
2 Black Saddlebags (USGS)
1 Red Saddlebags (USGS)
2 yellow skimmer sp. (USGS)
VERTEBRATES OF INTEREST
1 Yellow Warbler
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29-31 August 2003
OTHER INVERTS ON THE ROAD (Bandera, Medina, Atascosa, McMullen, Jim Wells, Brooks, Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Jim Hogg, Duval, Frio, Zavala, La Salle, Dimmit, back to Kerr County)
6 Pipevine Swallowtail (1 Zapata, 5 Jim Hogg Cos.)
9 Giant Swallowtail (2 Hidalgo, 6 Zapata, 1 Jim Hogg Cos.)
3 Lyside Sulphur (2 Zapata, 1 Jim Hogg Cos.)
12 Cloudless Sulphur (10 Zapata, 2 Jim Hogg Co.)
20 Large Orange Sulphur (20 Zapata Co.)
19,022 Snout sp. (3000 Hidalgo, 16,022 Zapata Co.)
3 Queen (1 Zapata, 1 Jim Hogg, 1 Duval Cos.)
10 Black Saddlebags (8 Dimmit (USGS), 1 La Salle (USGS), 1 Zapata (USGS) Cos.)
OTHER VERTS SEEN (Bandera, Medina, Atascosa, McMullen, Jim Wells, Brooks, Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Jim Hogg, Duval, Frio, Zavala, La Salle, Dimmit, back to Kerr County)
1 Gulf Coast Toad
2 Texas Indigo Snake (both DOR)
1 Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Brooks Co.)
1 Emu (Kerr Co.)
6 Lesser Rhea (Bandera Co.)
11 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (1 Frio, 10 Hidalgo Cos.)
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Cattle Egret
Red-tailed Hawk
1 Swainson's Hawk (Frio Co.)
1 Gray Hawk (1 Tigre Grande Crossing on US 83, Zapata Co.)
62 Harris's Hawk
61 Crested Caracara (Frio, Dimmit, La Salle, Starr, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Duval Cos.)
3 Northern Bobwhite (2 McMullen, 1 Jim Hogg Co.)
2 Sora (Frio Co.)
Killdeer
14 Upland Sandpiper (8 Zapata, 6 Duval Cos.)
5 Common Nighthawk (4 McMullen, 1 Kerr Co.)
7 Greater Roadrunner (3 Zapata, 4 Jim Hogg Co.)
Rock Pigeon
52 Common Ground-Dove (2 Frio, 32 Hidalgo, 8 Starr, 8 Zapata, 1 McMullen, 1 Medina Cos.)
Inca Dove
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
2 Eurasian Collared Dove (1 Medina, 1 Jim Hogg Cos.)
1 Eastern Screech-Owl (1 McMullen Co.)
hummingbird sp.
2 Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Dauphin's, Hidalgo Co.)
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
3 Great Kiskadee (1 Hidalgo, 1 Zapata, 1 La Salle Co.)
1 Myiarchus sp.
Couch's Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Cave Swallow
58 Chihuahuan Raven (43 La Salle, 15 Zapata Co.)
1 Brown Jay (Rio RV Park at Chapeño, Starr Co.)
Blue Jay
1 Cactus Wren
12 Loggerhead Shrike
European Starling
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
1 Eastern Bluebird (Hidalgo Co.)
European Starling
1 Summer Tanager
3 Pyrrhuloxia (Zapata Co.)
Olive Sparrow (Jim Hogg Co.)
Lark Sparrow
Great-tailed Grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow
10 ground squirrel sp.
1 cottontail sp. (Hidalgo Co.)
11 cottontail sp. (prob. Desert Cottontail, Zapata Co.)
1 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
1 Raccoon (1 Kerr Co.)
1 Hog-nosed Skunk (1 Kerr Co.)
4 Striped Skunk (4 Kerr Co.)
Cat (feral)
Dog (mutt, Rottweiler, German Shepherd)
1 Coyote (1 Frio Co.)
White-tailed Deer
Axis Deer (Frio, Ker Cos.)
1 Sika Deer (Frio Co.)
4 Red Deer
2 Wapiti
1 Springbok
12 Thompson's Gazelle
6 Blackbuck
Cattle (Black Baldy, Charolais, Range, Holstein, White Brahman, Black Angus, Hereford)
1 Bison
Goat (Boer, Spanish)
Sheep (Barbados, Suffolk)
1 Javelina (La Salle Co.)
Horse (Tobiano Paint, Overo Paint,, Quarter)
2 Grant's (Boehm's) Zebra (Frio Co.)
Ass (Sicilian Donkey)
