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Date: 4/14/26 6:17 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 14
It was overcast, mild, and a bit windy on the bird survey today. 69 species were found. Plenty of new arrivals. Anhinga's and Neotropic Cormorants are starting to nest. Broad-winged Hawks were migrating over today in small flocks. Gallinule numbers are greatly increasing. A high flying migrating flock of 40 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks flew over headed east; probably to that pond in Tom where they feed them. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 46 Canada Geese - 3 Wood Duck - 20 Blue-winged Teal - 46 Hooded Merganser - 1 Wild Turkey - 2 Pied-billed Grebe – 12 (One on nest.) Neotropic Cormorant - 22 (Some sitting on nests.) Double-crested Cormorant - 4 Anhinga - 81 (several sitting on nests.) American Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 5 Great Egret - 31 Snowy Egret - 32 Little-blue Heron - 40 Cattle Egret - 4 Green Heron - 4 White Ibis - 119 Black Vulture - 12 Turkey Vulture – 12 Bald Eagle - 1 imm. Red-shouldered Hawk - 5 Broad-winged Hawk - 15 Purple Gallinule - 18 Common Gallinule - 139 American Coot – 72 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Mourning Dove - 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Belted Kingfisher - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1 White-eyed Vireo- 13 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow - 9 Fish Crow - 6 Purple Martin - 1 Tree Swallow - 22 Cliff Swallow - 2 Barn Swallow - 1 Carolina Chickadee - 6 Tufted Titmouse - 5 Carolina Wren - 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Wood Thrush - 1 (New early date.) Nashville Warbler - 1 Northern Parula - 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 Pine Warbler - 1 Prothonotary Warbler - 7 Kentucky Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 12 Hooded Warbler - 1 Eastern Towhee - 1 White-throated Sparrow - 1 Northern Cardinal – 10 Indigo Bunting - 1 male Red-winged Blackbird - 28 Common Grackle - 24 Brown-headed Cowbird - 4 Orchard Oriole - 3 Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Broad-banded Watersnake Western Ratsnake Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog Bullfrog Odonates: Lilypad Forktail Orange Bluet Common Green Darner Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Common Whitetail Variegated Meadowhawk Black Saddlebags Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR Check out the Red Slough Photo Gallery: [ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!_160pe2OhUjRucVU3X8k7O_I52SXPOvnS5cyN1Wr_rd4KXDfehLH9DzLx5ynumKlonxn4ymOhOQ9uh68NHAzLw$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!_160pe2OhUjRucVU3X8k7O_I52SXPOvnS5cyN1Wr_rd4KXDfehLH9DzLx5ynumKlonxn4ymOhOQ9uh68NHAzLw$ [pbase[.]com] ]

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