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Date: 4/24/24 8:05 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
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Birders Guide to the Red Slough WMA: [ https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 | https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 ]
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