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Date: 4/30/25 5:44 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 30
It was overcast, mild, and windy on the bird survey today with a thunderstorm in the afternoon. 78 species were found. Not much in the way of through migrants yet. Theres a huge heronry (~ 30,000 birds) in Ward Lake this year and it looks like most of our heronry birds have moved over there to nest this year. We still have Anhingas and Neotropic Cormorants nesting on Pintail Lake as well as some Little-blue Herons but most everything else has moved over to Ward Lake. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 17 Canada Geese - 6 Wood Duck - 18 Blue-winged Teal - 22 Ring-necked Duck - 4 Hooded Merganser - 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 7 American White Pelican - 1 Neotropic Cormorant - 8 Anhinga - 82 Least Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 2 Great Egret - 16 Snowy Egret - 2 Little-blue Heron - 43 Cattle Egret - 36 Green Heron - 19 Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 1 White Ibis - 35 Black Vulture - 4 Turkey Vulture – 21 Mississippi Kite - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 King Rail - 1 Sora - 1 Purple Gallinule - 112 Common Gallinule - 102 American Coot – 33 Killdeer - 1 Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 Wilson's Phalarope - 3 Mourning Dove - 16 Rock Pigeon - 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 Acadian Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 3 White-eyed Vireo - 7 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow – 6 Fish Crow - 2 Purple Martin - 4 Tree Swallow - 15 Barn Swallow - 5 Carolina Chickadee - 1 Tufted Titmouse - 5 Carolina Wren - 9 Marsh Wren - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 2 Gray Catbird - 5 Northern Mockingbird - 2 Brown Thrasher - 1 Cedar Waxwing - 10 Northern Parula - 2 Pine Warbler - 1 Prairie Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 9 Common Yellowthroat - 16 Yellow-breasted Chat - 4 Summer Tanager - 2 Eastern Towhee - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 5 Northern Cardinal – 14 Blue Grosbeak - 2 Indigo Bunting - 10 Painted Bunting - 5 Dickcissel - 17 Red-winged Blackbird – 105 Common Grackle - 39 Brown-headed Cowbird - 10 Orchard Oriole - 2 House Finch - 1 House Sparrow - 1 Odonates: Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Black Saddlebags Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog Bullfrog Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR Check out the Red Slough Photo Gallery: [ https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma \| https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma ] Birders Guide to the Red Slough WMA: [ https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 \| https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 ] ############################ To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list: write to: mailto:<ARBIRD-L-SIGNOFF-REQUEST...> or click the following link: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1

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