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Date: 4/24/24 8:04 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 24
It was overcast, mild, and calm turning partly cloudy, warm, and a little windy on the survey today. 87 species were found. Not many migrant Passerines around and there wasn't much singing either. A few FOS have come back. Best highlight of the day was re-finding the Tricolored Heron that was originally found a couple weeks ago. Least Bitterns are back and calling also. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 16 Canada Geese – 2 Wood Duck - 8 Blue-winged Teal - 45 Northern Shoveler - 11 Ring-necked Duck - 1 Hooded Merganser - 5 Pied-billed Grebe – 10 Neotropic Cormorant - 19 (6 active nests) Double-crested Cormorant - 12 Anhinga - 119 (Many sitting on nests.) Least Bittern - 2 Great-blue Heron - 2 Great Egret - 22 Snowy Egret - 47 Little-blue Heron - 109 Tricolored Heron - 1 Cattle Egret - 2500 Green Heron - 8 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 2 White Ibis - 135 Black Vulture - 23 Turkey Vulture – 15 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 King Rail - 1 Sora - 2 Purple Gallinule - 35 Common Gallinule - 65 American Coot – 139 Killdeer - 1 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Lesser Yellowlegs - 34 Small "peep" species - 6 (flyovers) Mourning Dove - 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Chuck-wills-widow - 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-headed Woodpecker - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Acadian Flycatcher - 1 Eastern Phoebe – 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 2 White-eyed Vireo - 8 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 6 Blue Jay - 1 American Crow – 5 Fish Crow - 3 Purple Martin - 8 Tree Swallow - 23 Cliff Swallow - 8 Barn Swallow - 2 Carolina Chickadee – 3 Tufted Titmouse - 5 Carolina Wren – 5 Sedge Wren - 2 Marsh Wren - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Eastern Bluebird - 2 Gray Catbird - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 2 Cedar Waxwing - 5 Northern Parula - 1 Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 Prairie Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 8 Common Yellowthroat - 12 Hooded Warbler - 1 Yellow-breasted Chat - 2 Summer Tanager - 3 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow – 4 Northern Cardinal – 6 Indigo Bunting - 4 Painted Bunting - 2 Red-winged Blackbird – 2,325 Common Grackle - 45 Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 Orchard Oriole - 1 Odonates: Common Green Darner Stillwater Clubtail Eastern Pondhawk Common Whitetail Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Plain-bellied Watersnake Western Ratsnake Green Treefrog Eastern Gray Treefrog Blanchard's Cricket Frog Bullfrog 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!7HSyM2K8J01HrcoIpJQDxct853y4FYGaKsaGJkdtThwlNdFmuLrjCMPYQDKkQbcb_N59gq7sKESVQeHZ2O_3tg$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!7HSyM2K8J01HrcoIpJQDxct853y4FYGaKsaGJkdtThwlNdFmuLrjCMPYQDKkQbcb_N59gq7sKESVQeHZ2O_3tg$ [pbase[.]com] ] Birders Guide to the Red Slough WMA: [ https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!7HSyM2K8J01HrcoIpJQDxct853y4FYGaKsaGJkdtThwlNdFmuLrjCMPYQDKkQbcb_N59gq7sKESVQeFXgoPelA$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!7HSyM2K8J01HrcoIpJQDxct853y4FYGaKsaGJkdtThwlNdFmuLrjCMPYQDKkQbcb_N59gq7sKESVQeFXgoPelA$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] ]

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