Day Two, Part Two: Targets for Days Three and Four?

As I look over the lists, I still see some holes. Please keep an eye out for:

Butterflies:
Northern Cloudywing
Tropical Checkered-Skipper
Orange Skipperling
Southern Skipperling
Sachem
Southern Broken-Dash
Ocola Skipper
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Southern Dogface
Sleepy Orange
Dainty Sulphur (surprisingly hard in our area)
Red-banded Hairstreak
Dusky-blue Groundstreak (this and the last hybridize in our area)
Reakirt's Blue
Red-spotted Admiral
Silvery Checkerspot
Bordered Patch
Goatweed Leafwing
Gemmed Satyr
Carolina/Intricate Satyr (requires excellent photo of underwings to differentiate)

Birds (keep an eye out, I know they can be hard to document and some may have left already)
Pied-billed Grebe
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will's-widow
Hudsonian Godwit
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
oddball shorebirds
any gull or tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Little Blue Heron (I had it and the battery in my camera died!)
White-faced Ibis
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle (see "Little Blue Heron," above)
Swainson's Hawk
RED-TAILED HAWK (okay, there's your assignment!)
any owl
Belted Kingfisher
Pileated Woodpecker
any falcon (except Crested Caracara)
any Empidonax
Eastern Phoebe
PURPLE MARTIN (assignment number two!)
House Wren (too late?)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (too late?0
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit (too late?)
any sparrow but House, Lark, or Lincoln's
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
many warblers

Insects:
Common Whitetail
Common Green Darner (consider it a challenge)
Black Saddlebags
any cicada (too early?)
Caterpillar Hunter
Gray Lady Beetle

Other:
WHITE-TAILED DEER (assignment number three!)
Little Brown Skink
Southern Leopard Frog

Plants: Sorry. I don't know enough to know what's missing and what's not. Maybe one of you botany types can go through the list and find some obvious targets and post.

Bruce

Posted on April 28, 2024 03:16 AM by bruceneville