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PAGE UPDATED: January 1, 2008
THE HOFFMANN PROPERTY
I am a professional nature photographer who particularly enjoys photographing wildlife. The birds and other wildlife are plentiful on the property and below I have listed the bird species and some other wildlife seen since November 2005, some of which I have photographed.
Credit is due to my friend Martin Hagne, Executive Director of the Valley Nature Center in Weslaco, Texas. He is one of the people who spurred my interest in birds and encouraged me to start and maintain a Hoffmann Property bird list.
I have noted only species that have been seen and identified by Martin or other experts, observed by me on numerous occasions or photographed by me for positive identification afterward.
BIRDS
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Bobwhite
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Norther Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
Aplomado Falcon
Common Moorhen
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Wilson's Snipe
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Great Horned Owl
Lesser Nighthawk
Common Nighthawk
Common Pauraque
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Couch's Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
Green Jay
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
Cactus Wren
Bewick's Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Northern Mockingbird
Long-billed Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Sprague's Pipit
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Cassin's Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Bunting
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Goldfinch species
House Sparrow
BIRD SPECIES SEEN: 79
MAMMALS
Unidentified mice
Hispid Cotton Rat
Ground Squirrel
Nine-banded Armadillo
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Cottontail
Gray Fox
Raccoon
Bobcat
White-tail Deer
Striped Skunk
Opossum
MAMMAL SPECIES SEEN: 12
INSECTS & ARACHNIDS
Various skipper butterflies
Queen
Giant Swallowtail
Various sulphur and other non-skipper butterflies
Various moths, including Black Witch Moth
Ants, bees, wasps and other social insects
Various dragonflies and damselflies
Various beetles
Various spiders
Various flies, grasshoppers, true bugs, walkingsticks and mantids
Scorpion
Red Velvet Mite
INSECT & ARACHNID SPECIES SEEN: uncounted
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
Red-eared Slider
Texas Tortoise
Texas Toad
Rio Grande Leopard Frog
Mediterranean Gecko
Unidentified whiptail lizards
Texas Spiny Lizard
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
Checkered Garter Snake
Bull Snake
Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake
Great Plains Rat Snake
Indigo Snake
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS SEEN: 13
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