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Date: 3/2/26 8:29 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - March 2
It was overcast and mild with a light wind, turning partly cloudy in the afternoon, on the bird survey today. 53 species were found. Highlight of the day was a large flock of Sandhill Cranes migrating over and being very vocal. They circled Red Slough for a few minutes than drifted off to the southwest. I think they were looking for a place to roost for the night. Spring is really advancing. Redbuds are blooming now. Here is my list for today: Canada Geese - 2 Wood Duck - 35 Gadwall - 198 Mallard - 79 Blue-winged Teal - 6 Northern Shoveler - 200 Northern Pintail - 4 Green-winged Teal - 44 Ring-necked Duck - 80 Lesser Scaup - 1 Hooded Merganser - 14 Ruddy Duck - 15 Pied-billed Grebe – 31 Neotropic Cormorant - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 10 Great-blue Heron - 10 Great Egret - 2 Black Vulture - 2 Turkey Vulture – 19 Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 American Kestrel - 1 King Rail - 2 American Coot – 730 Sandhill Crane - 120 Killdeer - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 19 Rock Pigeon - 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 5 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow - 76 Fish Crow - 11 Tree Swallow - 11 Carolina Chickadee - 8 Tufted Titmouse - 2 Carolina Wren - 13 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Eastern Bluebird - 8 Hermit Thrush - 2 Brown Thrasher - 1 Cedar Waxwing - 60 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Pine Warbler - 1 Eastern Towhee - 1 Song Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow - 6 Northern Cardinal – 11 Red-winged Blackbird - 11 Herps: American Alligators Red-eared Sliders Southern Painted Turtle Broad-banded Watersnake Plainbelly Watersnake Blanchard's Cricket Frog (calling) Coastal Plain Leopard Frog (calling) Bullfrogs (calling) Odonates: Damselfly species (teneral) Common Green Darner 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 ] ############################ 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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