Date: 3/3/25 7:38 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - March 3


It was overcast, cool, and a little windy on the bird survey today. 55 species were found. Best find today was a very early Snowy Egret. Here is my list for today:





Wood Duck - 16

Gadwall - 120

American Wigeon - 7

Mallard - 50

Blue-winged Teal - 6

Northern Shoveler - 55

Northern Pintail - 6

Green-winged Teal - 123

Canvasback - 4

Ring-necked Duck - 49

Lesser Scaup - 14

Hooded Merganser - 13

Ruddy Duck - 1

Pied-billed Grebe – 8

Neotropic Cormorant - 1

Double-crested Cormorant - 14

Great-blue Heron - 11

Snowy Egret - 1 (New early date by 3 weeks.)

Black Vulture - 37

Turkey Vulture – 22

Northern Harrier - 3

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

American Coot – 322

Killdeer - 7

Greater Yellowlegs - 1

Wilson's Snipe - 252

Downy Woodpecker - 1

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker - 18

Pileated Woodpecker - 1

Eastern Phoebe - 5

Loggerhead Shrike - 2

Blue Jay - 3

American Crow – 4

Fish Crow - 1

Tree Swallow - 12

Carolina Chickadee - 2

Tufted Titmouse - 1

Brown Creeper - 1

Carolina Wren - 1

House Wren - 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2

Eastern Bluebird - 6

Northern Mockingbird - 1

Brown Thrasher - 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5

Fox Sparrow - 2

Song Sparrow - 3

Swamp Sparrow - 3

White-throated Sparrow - 10

Northern Cardinal – 6

Red-winged Blackbird – 28

Eastern Meadowlark - 10

Common Grackle - 16










Herps:




American Alligator

Cajun Chorus Frogs - calling







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR





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