Date: 2/17/25 8:01 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





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