Rio Brazos Audubon Society

Butterfly Count (NABA)

Laura — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:59:24 +0000

Title: Butterfly Count (NABA)
Location: Lick Creek Park
Description: Meet at Lick Creek Park at 7:00 AM by the granite map by the parking lot.
Start Time: 07:00
Date: 2012-07-14

RBAS Field Trip to Choke Canyon

Laura — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:57:45 +0000

Title: RBAS Field Trip to Choke Canyon
Description: Meet at 7:00 at 1207 South Texas in College Station. Bring bug spray, snacks, drinks, sunscreen, etc.
Start Time: 07:00
Date: 2012-06-16

Wild birds and vector-borne disease ecology

Laura — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:04:32 +0000

Title: Wild birds and vector-borne disease ecology
Location: Brazos Valley Museum
Link out: Click here
Description: Sarah Hamer is developing a ‘One Health’ research program to understand and manage disease threats at the interface of wildlife, domestic animal, and human health. Sarah is particularly interested in vector-borne disease ecology and epidemiology.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2012-05-09

Birding 101

Laura — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:18:15 +0000

Title: Birding 101
Location: Lick Creek Park
Description: Our Birding 101 meet at Lick Creek Park at 8:30 AM by the granite map by the parking lot.
Start Time: 08:30
Date: 2012-05-05

Laura — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:45:04 +0000

Eight people attended the Birding 101 trip this morning at Lick Creek Park. Three of the people are newcomers to Bryan/College Station. Collectively, we saw/heard 21 species. Five bird species stole the show, which everybody saw.

Kentucky Warbler: We heard two individuals and everybody got a great look at one.

Black-and-White Warbler: We heard one individual and everybody got great looks at this bird as well.

Northern Parula: We heard about six individuals and got looks at a few.

White-eyed Vireo: Lots of birds on territory singing. It took a while but everybody got good looks at this bird as well.

Broad-winged Hawk: We saw about 10 individuals working their way north.

Other birds seen/heard (H):

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Red-shouldered Hawk (H)

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Mourning Dove

Purple Martin

Barn Swallow

American Crow

Carolina Wren

Tufted Titmouse

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Ruby-crowned Kinglet (H)

Cedar Waxwing (H)

Carolina Chickadee

Northern Cardinal

Brown-headed Cowbird

Laura — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:37:37 +0000

Butterflies Found at Lick Creek Park on 31 March 2012

From 9am to about noon, botanist Monique Reid and I led a field trip at Lick Creek Park, College Station, Brazos County, Texas. Dozens of plants were identified, and 22 butterfly species were recorded; see list below. This butterfly/plant field trip was sponsored by the Friends of Lick Creek Park (http://lickcreekpark.org/) and the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History (www.brazosvalleymuseum.org). – Ro Wauer

1. Funereal Duskywing (Erynnis funeralis) – 1

2. Common Checkered-Skipper (Pyrgus communis) – 3

3. Celia’s Roadside-Skipper (Amblyscirtes celia) – 1

4. Bell’s Roadside-Skipper (Amblyscirtes belli) – 1

5. Clouded Skipper (Lerema accius) – 4

6. Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus) – 3

7. Dun Skipper (Euphyes vestris) – 2

8. Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole) – 5

9. Little Yellow (Pyrisitia lisa) – 4

10. Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme) – 8

11. Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) – 3

12. Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe) – 1

13. Falcate Orangetip (Anthocharis midea) – 1

14. Monarch (Danaus plexippus) – 2

15. Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) – 1

16. Hackberry Emperor (Asterocampa celtis) – 2

17. American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) – 4

18. Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) – 5

19. Question Mark (Polygonia interrogationis) – 200+

20. Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) – 6

21. Silvery Checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteris) – 9

22. Little Wood-Satyr (Megisto cymela) – 5

RBAS Lake Livingston Field Trip

Laura — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:07:22 +0000

RBAS Lake Livingston Field Trip

24 March 2012

7 participants

Double-crested Cormorant

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle (vacant nest)

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

American Coot

Killdeer

Bonaparte’s Gull

Laughing Gull

Franklin’s Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Forster’s Tern

Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Barred Owl (seen, close range)

Belted Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker (heard only)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Blue Jay

American Crow

Purple Martin

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Carolina Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Carolina Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (heard only)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Eastern Bluebird

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Pine Warbler

“Myrtle” Yellow-rumped Warbler

Northern Cardinal

Great-tailed Grackle

BUTTERFLIES:
Palamedes Swallowtail

Checkered White

Orange Sulphur

Cloudless Sulphur

Little Yellow

Common Buckeye

Carolina Satyr

Monarch

HERPS:

Red-eared Slider

Green Anole

MAMMALS:

Eastern Fox Squirrel

White-tailed Deer

Birding 101

Laura — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:46:34 +0000

Washington-on-the-Brazos SP Field Trip

Laura — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:24:15 +0000

Mallard 6
Black Vulture 14
Turkey Vulture 13
Red-shouldered Hawk 4
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Mourning Dove 4
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 6
Downy Woodpecker 5
Eastern Phoebe 4
Blue Jay 4
American Crow 11
Carolina Chickadee 22
Tufted Titmouse 5
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 23
Hermit Thrush 5
American Robin 5
Northern Mockingbird 6
Brown Thrasher 1
American Pipit 1
Cedar Waxwing 21
Orange-crowned Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 11
Chipping Sparrow 3
Field Sparrow 8
Vesper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 22
Harris’s Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 51
Pyrrhuloxia 1
meadowlark sp. 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 30
blackbird sp. 10

Birding 101

Laura — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:18:34 +0000