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Kerr County, 12 Sep 2003
unknown mayfly
Flatrock Lake County Park, Kerrville, Kerr County, 12 September 2003
17 September 2003 (v.4)
Looking for birds, odes, leps and plants in Kerr County. Easternmost area searched was Hasenwinkel Road in far east county; westernmost point was Western Canyon above the South Fork of the Guadalupe River in western county. I believe the creek that runs along Hasenwinkel Road empties into the Pedernales River, even though it begins very close to the Guadalupe River near Comfort. Other locations visited include: Camp Rio Vista, Flatrock County Park, Riverside Nature Center, Hilltop Ingram, Cade Loop, Lion's Park, Center Point Dam, Elm Pass Road, Cypress Creek Road, Potato Canyon, Lynxhaven.
As always i crave corrections and discussion on identifications i have made of any of these critters.
USGS = previously undocumented records according to the USGS website and/or 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/id73.htm
Included below is the usual list of the additional critters seen on the trip.
Many thanks to for identifications and confirmations.
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12 September 2003
TX: Kerr County
Plants blooming
Boneset
Purple Bindweed
Clematis sp. (unknown white-flowered sp.)
Blue Mistflower
Yellow Pondlily
Skeleton Plant
Purple Liatris
various yellow comps
Annual Sunflower
Maximilian Sunflower
Plateau Agalinis
Lepidoptera
1 Giant Swallowtail
7 Pipevine Swallowtail
2 swallowtail sp.
2 Orange Sulphur
4 Southern Dogface (c)
62 sulphur sp.
2 large sulphur sp.
1 blue sp.
*1 Gray Hairstreak
1 Bordered Patch
*1 Painted Lady
2 American Lady
1 lady sp.
*1 Common Buckeye
*2 Tawny Emperor
*1 Hackberry Emperor
14 Queen (c)
2 Monarch
*9 Clouded Skipper
1 Fiery Skipper
1 dark skipper sp.
*2 skipper sp. I
2 skipper sp. II
+ Ailanthus tent caterpillar
+ Carya tent caterpillar
Odonata
4 damselfly sp.
5 Orange Bluet
5 Dusky Dancer
1 Comanche Dancer
*2 Variable Dancer
*1 orange-winged dancer sp.
6 Blue-ringed Dancer
*2 Great Spreadwing (new location, Elm Pass Road) [USGS]
1 American Rubyspot
5 Common Green Darner
*9 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Blue Dasher
1 Black Saddlebags
*11 Swift Setwing
*2 Eastern Amberwing
1 dragonfly sp. 2 (c)
Other Invertebrates
100 Decollated Snail
*mayfly sp. I
mayfly sp. II
*mayfly sp. III
*2 damselfly mimic thingy
*1 katydid sp.
Birds
4 Mallard (feral)
5 Blue-winged Teal
6 Muscovy (feral)
2 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Green Heron
70 Cattle Egret
11 Turkey Vulture
14 Black Vulture
4 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Buteo sp.
1 Wild Turkey
1 Chicken (feral)
1 Spotted Sandpiper
10 Rock Pigeon
13 Mourning Dove
11 White-winged Dove
2 hummingbird sp.
1 Downy Woodpecker
1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
2 Eastern Phoebe
4 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
76 Barn Swallow
3 White-eyed Vireo
3 Western Scrub-Jay
4 Blue Jay
3 Common Raven
4 Eastern Bluebird
3 Northern Mockingbird
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Black-crested Titmouse
11 Carolina Chickadee
6 Carolina Wren
2 Bewick's Wren
3 European Starling
1 Summer Tanager
3 Northern Cardinal
1 Blue Grosbeak
50 Great-tailed Grackle
20 Brown-headed Cowbird
6 Lesser Goldfinch
10 House Sparrow
Other Vertebrates
6 fish sp.
1 Spotted Gar
4 Blanchard's Cricket Frog
1 Rio Grande Leopard Frog
2 narrowmouth toad sp.
1 Texas Spiny Lizard
1 Eastern Tree Lizard
7 Texas Slider
2 Virginia Opossum
1 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
7 Fox Squirrel
1 Rock Squirrel
4 Striped Skunk
20 Axis Deer
10 White-tailed Deer
40 Blackbuck
Sheep (Barbados, 1 Mouflon, Suffolk)
Goat (Boer, Spanish)
Cattle (Black Angus, Gelbvieh, Texas Longhorn)
Horse (Tobiano, Overo, Quarter)
Ass (Sicilian Donkey)
