Date: 12/10/24 7:08 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Dec. 10


The bird survey started off overcast and cool, with a light wind; then turned partly cloudy and very windy for the remainder of the survey. 57 species were found. The wind really interfered with the survey especially making it difficult to detect Passerines. Here is my list for today:




Wood Duck - 3

Gadwall - 1000

American Wigeon - 12

Mallard - 240

Blue-winged Teal - 2

Northern Shoveler - 93

Northern Pintail - 15

Green-winged Teal - 287

Ring-necked Duck - 735

Bufflehead - 8

Hooded Merganser - 5

Ruddy Duck - 4

Pied-billed Grebe – 13

Neotropic Cormorant - 1

Double-crested Cormorant - 6

Great-blue Heron - 6

White Ibis - 21 (imm.)

Black Vulture - 120

Turkey Vulture – 46

Bald Eagle - 2 (adults)

Northern Harrier - 2

Red-shouldered Hawk - 2

Red-tailed Hawk - 3

Cooper's Hawk - 2

American Kestrel - 3

Common Gallinule - 1 (basic adult)

American Coot – 645

Killdeer - 1

Greater Yellowlegs - 3

Ring-billed Gull - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1

Downy Woodpecker - 1

Hairy Woodpecker - 2

Northern Flicker - 3

Eastern Phoebe - 3

Blue Jay - 2

American Crow – 250

Fish Crow - 142

Carolina Chickadee - 3

Tufted Titmouse - 3

Carolina Wren – 1

Winter Wren - 1

Eastern Bluebird - 3

American Robin - 3

Brown Thrasher - 1

Cedar Waxwing - 15

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5

Common Yellowthroat - 1

Eastern Towhee - 2

Song Sparrow - 3

Swamp Sparrow - 2

White-throated Sparrow - 7

Dark-eyed Junco - 17

Northern Cardinal – 11

Red-winged Blackbird – 50

American Goldfinch - 8







Odonates:




Variegated Meadowhawk







Herps:




Red-eared Slider







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR





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