Date: 6/30/25 6:19 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 30




It was partly cloudy, very warm, and a bit windy on the bird survey today. 64 species were found. Not much out of the ordinary except for a pair of House Finches which we seldom see at Red Slough. Some of the wetlands are drying up and have large feeding swarms of herons and egrets feeding in what little water is left. Here is my list for today:




Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 2

Wood Duck - 11

Ring-necked Duck - 8 males

Pied-billed Grebe – 2

Neotropic Cormorant - 20

Anhinga - 72

Least Bittern - 3

Great-blue Heron - 7

Great Egret - 59

Snowy Egret - 132

Little-blue Heron - 30

Cattle Egret - 810

Green Heron - 10

Black-crowned Night Heron - 1

Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 2

White Ibis - 24

Black Vulture - 7

Turkey Vulture – 27

Mississippi Kite - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1

Purple Gallinule - 86

Common Gallinule - 56

American Coot – 7

Mourning Dove - 4

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1

Downy Woodpecker - 1

Acadian Flycatcher - 2

Eastern Phoebe - 1

Great-crested Flycatcher - 1

Eastern Kingbird - 1

White-eyed Vireo - 7

Yellow-throated Vireo - 1

Red-eyed Vireo - 3

American Crow - 11

Purple Martin - 4

Tree Swallow - 9

Cliff Swallow - 5

Barn Swallow - 8

Carolina Chickadee - 3

Tufted Titmouse - 7

Carolina Wren - 8

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1

Northern Mockingbird - 1

Northern Parula - 1

Pine Warbler - 1

Black-and-white Warbler - 1

Prothonotary Warbler - 9

Kentucky Warbler - 2

Common Yellowthroat - 5

Yellow-breasted Chat - 3

Summer Tanager - 3

Eastern Towhee - 1

Northern Cardinal – 8

Blue Grosbeak - 4

Indigo Bunting - 11

Painted Bunting - 6

Dickcissel - 4

Red-winged Blackbird – 17

Common Grackle - 8

Brown-headed Cowbird - 6

Orchard Oriole - 1

House Finch - 2







Odonates:




Mocha Emerald

Prince Baskettail

Halloween Pennant

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Slaty Skimmer

Common Whitetail

Spot-winged Glider

Black Saddlebags







Herps:




Red-eared Slider







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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