2012 Comprehensive List

New Shooting Locations:

1. Bledsoe Creek State Park (Tennessee)
2. Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve (DuPage County, IL)

 New Species:

Amphibians


Birds (11/5)

1. Blue Jay
2. Hairy Woodpecker
3. Muscovy Duck
4. House Finch
5. Brown Creeper 
6. Yellow-Shafted Northern Flicker
7. Northern Cardinal
8. Song Sparrow
9. White-Breasted Nuthatch 
10. Blue-Winged Teal 
11. American Robin 
12. Red-Breasted Woodpecker

Insects and Arachnids (5/2)
       Butterflies and Moths

1. Eastern Tailed Blue
2. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (female)
3. Pipevine Swallowtail 
4. Cabbage White 

        Other (2/2)

1. Mosquito
2. Tiger Beetle
   

Invertebrates (other than insects and arachnids) (1/1)
Snail


Mammals (3/1)

1. White-Tailed Deer
2. Eastern Cottontail Rabbit 
3. Eastern Gray Squirrel
   

Reptiles (1/1)
Common Snapping Turtles



Unknown (1/1)
unknown silkworm caterpillar


Plants (10/6)

1. Columbine
2. Crossvine
3. Rhododendron
4. Sweet Betsy
5. Honeysuckle
6. Common Blue Violet
7. Saint Anthony's Turnip (buttercup)
8. Virginia Bluebells 
9. Prairie Trillium
10. Creeping Buttercup

Update: 4.14.12 -  9/6 (9 species total, 6 are new)
Update: 4.16.12 - 13/10 
Update: 4. 21.12 - 24/11
Update: 4.28.12 - 34/18

(Listings in purple are new species for this year.)

2011 Comprehensive List

Amphibians
Bullfrog

Birds

1. American Black Duck
2. American Coot
3. American Redstart
4. Baltimore Oriole
5. Barn Swallow
6. Black-Crowned Night Heron
7. Brown Creeper
8. Canada Goose
9. Cardinal
10. Chipping Sparrow
11. Common Yellow-throat Warbler
12. Crow
13. Eastern Kingbird
14. Eastern Towhee
15. Gray Catbird
16. Graylag Goose
17. Hairy Woodpecker
18. Hermit Thrush
19. Indigo Bunting
20. Lincoln's Sparrow
21. Magnolia Warbler
22. Manky Mallard
         - Duclair Duck
23. Ovenbird
24. Pekin/Domesticated Duck
25. Pied-Billed Grebe
26. Peregrine Falcon
27. Redheaded Woodpecker
28. Red-Tailed Hawk
29. Rose-breasted Grosbeak 
30. Tree Swallow
31. Virginia Rail
32. White Crowned Sparrow
33. Yellow-Rumped Warbler
34. Yellow Warbler

Insects

        Butterflies and Moths

1. Cabbage White Butterfly
2. Eastern Comma Butterfly
3. Fiery Skipper
4. Sulphur Butterfly

        Damselflies
 Eastern Forktail Damselfly

        Dragonflies

1. Calico Pennant Dragonfly
2. Carolina Saddlebags Dragonfly
3. Common Green Darner Dragonfly
4. Common Whitetail Dragonfly
5. Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly
6. Jade Clubtail Dragonfly
7. Twelve Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly

        Other

1. Honeybee
2. Megachilid bee
3. Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle

Mammals

1. Chipmunk
2. Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
3. Gray Squirrel

Reptiles

1. Painted Turtle
2. Red-Earred Slider Turtles

Unknown

1. Ant-looking Spider
2. Little Tiny Toads
3. Tiny Grasshopper
4. Unknown wasp
5. Unknown wren
6. Unknown Yellow and black spotted beetle

Total Species Blogged: 61 (including 6 unknown)

2010 Comprehensive List

This is the comprehensive list of all animal and plant species listed in this blog in the year 2010


2010

Amphibians

1. Green Frog
2. Northern Leopard Frog
3. Southern Leopard Frog (tadpole)
4. Southern Leopard Frog (frog)

Birds

1. American Goldfinch
2. American Robin
3. Common Tern
4. Downy Woodpecker
5. Grackle
6. Great Blue Heron
7. Kildeer 
8. Red-Eyed Vireo
9. Red-Winged Blackbird
10. Ring-Billed Gull
11. Song Sparrow
12. Snowy Egret
13. Swan
14. Wood Duck

Insects and Arachnids
 
      Butterflies and Moths

1. Ailanthus Webworm Moth
2. Buckeye Butterfly 
3. Clouded Sulphur Butterfly
4. Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly
5. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (female, black morph)
6. Hairy Skipper
7. Little Yellow Butterfly 
8. Monarch Butterfly
        - Monarch Caterpillar
9. Pearl Crescent Butterfly
10. Red Admiral Butterfly
11. Silver Spotted Skipper

     Damselflies

1. Citrine-Tail Damselfly
2. Familiar Bluet

     Dragonflies

1. Calico Pennant Dragonfly
2. Common Darter Dragonfly
3. Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly 
4. Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly
5. Elfin Skimmer Dragonfly
6. Twelve-Spotted Skimmer Dragonfly
7. White-Faced Meadowhawk Dragonfly

      Other

1. Arigope/Yellow Garden Spider
2. Carolina Grasshopper/Carolina Locust
3. Common House spider
4. Fire-Colored Beetle
5. Green Bee
6. Hoverfly
7. Great Black Wasp
8. Japanese Beetle
9. Migratory Grasshopper
10. Milkweed Beetle
11. Tachnid Fly
12. Thread-Waisted Wasp
13. Yellow-jacket

Other
Sulphur Shell fungus

Unknown
unknown grasshopper with ovipositer

Plants

1. Arrowroot
2. Bergamont/Bee Balm
3. Black Eyed Susans
4. Blue Vervain
5. Bottle Gentian
6. Bull Thistle
7. Butterfly Milkweed
8. Chickory
9. Common Mullien
10. Coneflower
11. Cutleaf Rosinweed
12. Goldenrod
13. Great Blue Lobelia
14. Indian Pipe/Ghost Plant
15. Loosestrife
16. Morning Glory
17. New England Asters
18. Obedient Plant
19. Pokeberry
20. Queen Anne's Lace
21. Rattlesnake Master
22. Spotted Jewelweed
23. Tickseed Sunflower
24. Waterlilies
25. Winterberries

Total Species Blogged: 78