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Date: 2/17/25 7:59 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Feb. 17
It was mostly clear, cold, and windy on the bird survey today. 56 species were found. Most notable find today was an apparent melanistic Red-shouldered Hawk which allowed me to get fairly close pics. Here is my list for today: Greater White-fronted Geese - 84 Snow Goose - 1 Canada Geese - 2 Wood Duck - 2 Gadwall - 70 Mallard - 95 Northern Shoveler - 74 Northern Pintail - 153 Green-winged Teal - 45 Canvasback - 3 Ring-necked Duck - 285 Hooded Merganser - 7 Ruddy Duck - 5 Pied-billed Grebe – 15 Neotropic Cormorant - 1 (basic adult) Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Great-blue Heron - 15 Black Vulture - 20 Turkey Vulture – 34 Bald Eagle - 1 imm. Northern Harrier - 3 Red-shouldered Hawk - 7 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 Merlin - 1 American Coot – 595 Killdeer - 18 Mourning Dove - 1 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Hairy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 11 Loggerhead Shrike - 1 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow – 7 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Carolina Wren - 3 Winter Wren - 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 3 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Cedar Waxwing - 15 Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Savannah Sparrow - 12 Song Sparrow - 11 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 3 White-throated Sparrow - 18 Dark-eyed Junco - 16 Northern Cardinal – 10 Red-winged Blackbird – 24 Eastern Meadowlark - 6 Purple Finch - 1 Herps: Red-eared Slider Cajun Chorus Frog (calling) 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!4HKwi2YeB-Pd9Q4NUQBCcEyCC8h1XtGQIzn3WB4ywUVEDEUIgkAs4_qraE5KRK5rxy9aVJdvxzACU1dN48TK-w$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!4HKwi2YeB-Pd9Q4NUQBCcEyCC8h1XtGQIzn3WB4ywUVEDEUIgkAs4_qraE5KRK5rxy9aVJdvxzACU1dN48TK-w$ [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!4HKwi2YeB-Pd9Q4NUQBCcEyCC8h1XtGQIzn3WB4ywUVEDEUIgkAs4_qraE5KRK5rxy9aVJdvxzACU1dAbLNq0Q$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!4HKwi2YeB-Pd9Q4NUQBCcEyCC8h1XtGQIzn3WB4ywUVEDEUIgkAs4_qraE5KRK5rxy9aVJdvxzACU1dAbLNq0Q$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] ]

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