Date: 11/19/24 6:50 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Nov. 19


It started off cool with dense fog turning sunny and warm with a light wind by mid day. The dense fog was present for the first 3.5 hours of the survey making it impossible to scan the reservoirs for distant birds. Only birds within 70 yards were visible. Inspite of this, Garrett Scott and I had a good survey finding 69 species. Still have lingering summer birds but their numbers are decreasing every week. Hopefully a few of these will linger to our Red Slough CBC on Dec. 15. Here is our list for today:




Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 25

Canada Goose - 1

Wood Duck - 20

Gadwall - 425

"Brewer's Duck" - 1 male

American Wigeon - 7

Mallard - 26

Blue-winged Teal - 13

Northern Shoveler - 20

Northern Pintail - 37

Green-winged Teal - 85

Ring-necked Duck - 1,260

Ruddy Duck - 15

Pied-billed Grebe – 17

Double-crested Cormorant - 9

Great-blue Heron - 6

Great Egret - 2

Snowy Egret - 2 (new late date for RS)

White Ibis - 18 imm.

Black Vulture - 150

Turkey Vulture – 12

Bald Eagle - 1 (adult)

Northern Harrier - 3

Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 5

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

American Kestrel - 1

Virginia Rail - 1

Common Gallinule - 10 (1 adult & 9 imm.)

American Coot – 625

Killdeer - 11

Greater Yellowlegs - 2

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1

Downy Woodpecker - 5

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker - 7

Pileated Woodpecker - 2

Eastern Phoebe - 13

Blue Jay - 3

American Crow – 160

Fish Crow - 34

Carolina Chickadee - 5

Tufted Titmouse - 5

Carolina Wren – 5

Winter Wren - 1

Sedge Wren - 2

Marsh Wren - 1

Brown Creeper - 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2

Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1

Eastern Bluebird - 3

American Robin - 3

Brown Thrasher - 3

Orange-crowned Warbler - 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3

Pine Warbler - 1

Common Yellowthroat - 4

Eastern Towhee - 2

Lincoln's Sparrow - 1

Song Sparrow - 16

Swamp Sparrow - 10

White-throated Sparrow - 15

Dark-eyed Junco - 4

Northern Cardinal – 9

Eastern Meadowlark - 1

Red-winged Blackbird – 135

Rusty Blackbird - 12

Common Grackle - 4

American Goldfinch - 33







Odonates:




Common Green Darner

Variegated Meadowhawk

Hyacinth Glider (vagrant from tropics)






Herps:




American Alligator

Red-eared Slider

Green Treefrog







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR





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