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Kerr County, 7  September 2003


23 September 2003 (v.4)

Doing Leps, Odes, Birds and Plants in Kerr County, Sunday, 7 September 2003. Locations included Kerr Wildlife Management Area (River pullout, east road ponds, Spring Pasture), Boneyard Draw, below Ingram Dam, Camp Rio Vista. Locations of specials noted where appropriate. Otherwise totals are for the county.

* = one or more individuals photographed of the number reported (photos to eventually be posted on my Kerr Fauna/Flora website; anyone wanting to see individual photos prior to that can email me and i'll post them on a temporary page).

Thanks to Mike Overton for help with identifications.


BLOOMING TODAY

Purple Bindweed
Texas Bindweed
Frostweed
Cowpen Daisy
Texas Kidneywood
Tall Goldenrod
Little Blue Sage (introduced)
Buffalo Bur
Silverleaf Nightshade (Horse Nettle)
Cardinalflower
Two-leaved Senna
Mealy Sage
Swamp Milkweed
Blue Mistflower
Dayflower
Purple Eryngo
Drummond's Rain-lily
Snow-on-the-Mountain
Rose Pavonia
Indian Mallow
River Primrose
Water Primrose
Lindheimer's Morning Glory
Dodder (on Mealy Sage)
Texas Vervain
Dakota Vervain
Gray Vervain
Frogfruit
Common Sunflower
Rock Daisy


INVERTEBRATES

*6 Giant Swallowtail
*17 Pipevine Swallowtail
*9 Black Swallowtail
*1 Large Orange Sulphur
*16 Southern Dogface
*9 Orange Sulphur
*3 Lyside Sulphur
*2 Dainty Sulphur
1 sulphur sp.
1 small white sp.
1 big white sp. (Monarch-sized, pure white with black edge on forewing; Kerr WMA on river; brief look on the wing)
*1 Gray Hairstreak
1cf. Juniper/Olive Hairstreak
*1 Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
*1 Great Purple Hairstreak
*20 Reakirt's Blue
1 blue sp.
*4 American Snout
1 Common Mestra
2 Variegated Fritillary
*13 Gulf Fritillary
1 California Sister
*5 Phaon Crescent
*2 Pearl Crescent
*2 Red Admiral
*2 American Lady
*6 Painted Lady
5 lady sp.
1 Hackberry Emperor
*5 Red Satyr
*14 Monarch
*9 Queen
2 duskywing sp.
*1 cf. Desert Checkered-Skipper
*10 Fiery Skipper
*8 Sachem
*1 Clouded Skipper

5 American Rubyspot
2 Smoky Rubyspot
*1 Desert Firetail
4 Powdered Dancer
*9 Comanche Dancer
*3 Blue-ringed Dancer
*9 Common Green Darner
*4 Eastern Pondhawk
*4 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
*3 Roseate Skimmer
*5 Common Whitetail
*4 skimmer sp.
*43 Black Saddlebags
3 Red Saddlebags
*1 Swift Setwing  (being eaten by Eastern Pondhawk)


VERTEBRATES

20 Common Mosquitofish
40 Pugnose Minnow
1 Redbreast Sunfish
2 Largemouth Bass

*100 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
*10 Blanchard's Cricket Frog

2 Southern Prairie Lizard
1 Central Texas Whipsnake

2 Great Blue Heron
1 Green Heron
6 Black Vulture
52 Turkey Vulture
2 Killdeer
1 Upland Sandpiper
1 Greater Roadrunner
2 Inca Dove
1 Mourning Dove
1 hummingbird sp.
2 Green Kingfisher (Kerr WMA river pullout; below Ingram Dam)
1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
1 Ash-throated Flycatcher
*1 Least Flycatcher
1 Alder Flycatcher
1 Empidonax sp.
2 Eastern Phoebe
1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
54 Barn Swallow
1 BLACK-CAPPED VIREO (singing male, short song; second day in a row; late)
1 Blue Jay
3 Western Scrub-Jay
1 Black-crested Titmouse
2 Carolina Chickadee
1 Carolina Wren
1 Canyon Wren
30 European Starling
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Northern Cardinal
1f Painted Bunting
4 Field Sparrow
10 Lark Sparrow
1 Lesser Goldfinch
1 House Finch
6 Great-tailed Grackle
12 Red-winged Blackbird
10 House Sparrow

1 Fox Squirrel
1 Striped Skunk
1 Hog-nosed Skunk
1 Raccoon (DOR only)
2 White-tailed Deer
22 Blackbuck
1 Axis Deer
Cattle (Texas Longhorn, Black Angus, Gelbvieh)
Goat (Boer)
Sheep (40 Mouflon)
Horse (Quarterhorse, Thoroughbred)
Ass (Sicilian Donkey, Common Burro)