Diario de thebark

eBird list of bird species seen at Lubbock Lake Landmark: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L880228

Everything reported to iNat from Lubbock Lake Landmark is at
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/lubbock-lake-landmark

Plants: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/plants-of-the-lubbock-lake-landmark
Animals: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lubbock-lake-landmark-cumulative-animal-observations
Previous bioblitzes: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lubbock-lake-landmark-inaugural-survey
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lubbock-lake-landmark-bioblitz-2017
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/lubbock-lake-landmark-3rd-annual-bioblitz-2018

Time to get competitive! The Lubbock Lake Landmark 8-day bioblitz is already here. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/4th-annual-lubbock-lake-landmark-bioblitz I figure the week is good for 300 observations. Who's game? I'll buy the winner a beer if it ain't me.

This bioblitz is sponsored by the South Plains Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists. You do NOT have to be a member or a current member in good standing to participate. Good hunting, everybody, and have fun.

The next training for the South Plains Chapter starts in early 2020. For information, or to participate in some of our programs and activities, visit https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=249041521786984&ref and use the contact instructions there.

As long as your observation was made from June 9 through June 16, 2019, at Lubbock Lake Landmark, it qualifies for this bioblitz! Keep the observations coming! At this point it looks like Jordan Cochran is #1 in species (I have no observations left) -- good job, Jordan! -- but who knows? There are likely 200 observations out there unposted.

Just defined a place on iNat called "Tahoka Lake Area," including not only Tahoka Lake Pasture but the entire lake and the rugged land surrounding it on all sides. Many observations from that area! https://www.inaturalist.org/places/tahoka-lake-area Next step, to create a collection project.

June 12 I was exploring this area with ellen5 and didn't recognize it from our 2018 bioblitz. James' Prairie Clover was not where where I found it a year before and other plants were gone and the cliffside looked different. The REASON, I now think, is erosion. The city has paved a large parking lot adjoining LLL land and with the flat hard surface of the soccer fields, in heavy rain the adjoining edges of Yellowhouse draw surely look like Niagara Falls.

I think this area along the NE cliffside is critical to explore before more is washed away, and regret not figuring this out sooner.

@ellen5 , @kdhopper