Date: 8/20/25 6:48 am
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Aug. 19



The bird survey started off yesterday mostly cloudy, calm, and mild but soon turned partly cloudy and hot, with a light wind. 60 species were found. Best highlight was an immature Roseate Spoonbill with White Ibis' in unit 31 where we have a nice mudflat area right now. Unit 31 is south of Bittern Lake and is best accessed through unit 17 from Black Land road. Also, most of the shorebirds were from this location including a nice Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Here is my list for yesterday:




Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 6

Wood Duck - 76

Blue-winged Teal - 9

Ring-necked Duck - 7

Pied-billed Grebe – 8

Neotropic Cormorant - 9

Anhinga - 40

Least Bittern - 1

Great-blue Heron - 8

Great Egret - 21

Snowy Egret - 40

Little-blue Heron - 25

Cattle Egret - 550

Green Heron - 3

Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 2

White Ibis - 50

White-faced Ibis - 7

Plegadis species - 4 imm.

Roseate Spoonbill - 1 imm.

Black Vulture - 8

Turkey Vulture – 9

Mississippi Kite - 3

Red-shouldered Hawk - 2

Purple Gallinule - 104

Common Gallinule - 112

American Coot – 5

Killdeer - 39

Spotted Sandpiper - 1

Solitary Sandpiper - 11

Lesser Yellowlegs - 11

Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2

Least Sandpiper - 31

Pectoral Sandpiper - 31

Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1

Wilson's Snipe - 1

Mourning Dove - 22

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1

Downy Woodpecker - 1

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Pileated Woodpecker - 1

Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1

Eastern Phoebe - 1

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1

Loggerhead Shrike - 1

White-eyed Vireo - 4

Blue Jay - 1

American Crow - 2

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2

Cliff Swallow - 7

Barn Swallow - 7

Carolina Chickadee - 4

Tufted Titmouse - 2

Carolina Wren - 8

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2

Common Yellowthroat - 1

Northern Cardinal – 12

Blue Grosbeak - 1

Indigo Bunting - 3

Red-winged Blackbird – 170







Odonates:




Blue-tipped Dancer

Halloween Pennant

Slaty Skimmer

Great-blue Skimmer

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Common Whitetail

Wandering Glider

Striped Saddlebags

Black Saddlebags

Blue-faced Meadowhawk







Herps:




Red-eared Slider

Green Treefrog

Blanchard's Cricket Frog

Green Frog







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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