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Kerr County, 6 September 2003
23 September 2003 (v.4)
Doing Leps, Odes, Birds and Plants in Kerr County, Saturday, 6 September 2003. Locations included Kerr Wildlife Management Area (River pullout, east road ponds, Bobcat Pasture), Boneyard Draw, 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.
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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
Dayflower
Purple Eryngo
Drummond's Rain-lily
Snow-on-the-Mountain
Rose Pavonia
Indian Mallow
Lindheimer's Morning Glory
Dodder (on Mealy Sage)
Texas Vervain
Dakota Vervain
Gray Vervain
Frogfruit
Common Sunflower
Rock Daisy
INVERTEBRATES
*6 Pipevine Swallowtail
1 swallowtail sp.
1 Sleepy Orange
2 Orange Sulphur
1 Dainty Sulphur
2 white sp.
2 small yellow sp.
1 large yellow sp.
*20 Reakirt's Blue
*1 American Snout
*2 Phaon Crescent
1 crescent sp.
*1 California Sister
1 Red-spotted Purple
*1 Painted Lady
*1 American Lady
3 Monarch
*6 Queen
1 Common Woodnymph
*2 Red Satyr
*25 Northern Cloudywing
*2 duskywing sp.
1 Dun Skipper
1 Eufala Skipper
*6 Fiery Skipper
1 Holomelina moth sp.
*5 American Rubyspot
*3 Smoky Rubyspot
*10 Blue-ringed Dancer
*5 Powdered Dancer
*20 Comanche Dancer
*4 Dusky Dancer
20 dancer sp.
10 Common Green Darner
*14 Variegated Meadowhawk
21 Roseate Skimmer
*1 Twelve-spotted Skimmer
27 Black Saddlebags
1 Red Saddlebags
*1 Checkered Setwing
VERTEBRATES
50 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
1 Texas Slider
2 Green Heron
*9 Black Vulture
*20 Turkey Vulture
6 Wild Turkey
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Spotted Sandpiper
4 Upland Sandpiper
1 Greater Roadrunner
1 Mourning Dove
10 Chimney Swift
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
2 hummingbird sp.
1 RINGED KINGFISHER (Guadalupe River behind Point Theatre)
1 Green Kingfisher (Kerr WMA river pullout)
1 Ash-throated Flycatcher
1 Least Flycatcher
2 Eastern Phoebe
7 Barn Swallow
4 Cliff Swallow
4 Western Scrub-Jay
2 Common Raven
1 Blue Jay
1 American Robin
1 Yellow-throated Vireo
1 BLACK-CAPPED VIREO (1 male singing interrupted song; late)
5 White-eyed Vireo
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
5 Carolina Wren
2 Bewick's Wren
1 Canyon Wren
2 Carolina Chickadee
1 Black-crested Titmouse
3 Summer Tanager
3 Northern Cardinal
1 Blue Grosbeak
4 Dickcissel
1 Canyon Towhee
1 Field Sparrow
7 Lark Sparrow
1 Lesser Goldfinch
2 Virginia Opossum
1 Fox Squirrel
1 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
1 Striped Skunk
1 Cat (feral)
54 White-tailed Deer
25 Axis Deer
Cattle (Black Angus, Black Baldy, Hereford, Texas Longhorn, Gelbvieh)
Goat (Boer)
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