Date: 4/23/25 5:16 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 23
It was overcast and mild, with a very slight wind on the bird survey today. 86 species were found. Lots of new arrivals now. Large numbers of gallinules are now present. Don't think we have ever had so many this early before. Soras seemed everywhere. A sapsucker was a month late for us. Here is my list for today:
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 8
Canada Geese - 7
Wood Duck - 9
Blue-winged Teal - 58
Northern Shoveler - 7
Ring-necked Duck - 2
Hooded Merganser - 2
Ruddy Duck - 2
Pied-billed Grebe – 19
Neotropic Cormorant - 8
Anhinga - 62
Least Bittern - 6
Great-blue Heron - 2
Great Egret - 35
Snowy Egret - 7
Little-blue Heron - 28
Cattle Egret - 11
Green Heron - 21
Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 1
White Ibis - 58
Black Vulture - 4
Turkey Vulture – 7
Red-shouldered Hawk - 3
King Rail - 2
Sora - 13
Purple Gallinule - 116
Common Gallinule - 127
American Coot – 76
Sandpiper species - 19 (distant flybys)
Mourning Dove - 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 (late; seen & heard.)
