Date: 3/17/25 8:34 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - March 17

The bird survey today started off clear, cool, and calm but turned partly cloudy, warm, and windy by noon. 62 species were found. Our summer breeders are starting to return. Newly returned breeders found today were Anhingas, Cattle Egret, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Yellow-throated Warbler. Here is my list for today:





Canada Geese - 1

Wood Duck - 9

Gadwall - 40

American Wigeon - 1

Mallard - 2

Blue-winged Teal - 27

Northern Shoveler - 142

Ring-necked Duck - 59

Lesser Scaup - 12

Bufflehead - 1

Hooded Merganser - 2

Ruddy Duck - 64

Pied-billed Grebe – 23

Neotropic Cormorant - 5

Double-crested Cormorant - 22

Anhinga - 3

American Bittern - 2

Great-blue Heron - 5

Great Egret - 2

Little-blue Heron - 3

Cattle Egret - 1

Black Vulture - 136

Turkey Vulture – 20

Northern Harrier - 3

Red-shouldered Hawk - 3

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

Virginia Rail - 1

American Coot – 265

Killdeer - 5

Greater Yellowlegs - 76

Lesser Yellowlegs - 2

Wilson's Snipe - 16

Mourning Dove - 3

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5

Eastern Phoebe - 2

Blue Jay - 4

American Crow – 6

Fish Crow - 29

Purple Martin - 1

Tree Swallow - 27

Barn Swallow - 9

Carolina Chickadee - 1

Tufted Titmouse - 6

Carolina Wren - 3

House Wren - 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1

Hermit Thrush - 1

American Robin - 1

Brown Thrasher - 2

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 18

Yellow-throated Warbler - 1

Pine Warbler - 1

Eastern Towhee - 1

Song Sparrow - 2

White-throated Sparrow - 12

Dark-eyed Junco - 3

Northern Cardinal – 9

Red-winged Blackbird – 13

Common Grackle - 3

Brown-headed Cowbird - 6

American Goldfinch - 4







Odonates:




Fragile Forktail

Common Green Darner

Springtime Darner

"red" Saddlebags

Black Saddlebags







Herps:




American Alligator

Red-eared Slider

Southern Painted Turtle







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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