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Date: 3/27/25 9:20 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - March 27
It started off calm, partly cloudy and mild, turning windy and warmer in the afternoon, on the bird survey today. 68 species were found. Migrants are really starting to show up. Spring has sprung! Here is my list for today: Canada Geese - 1 Wood Duck - 4 Gadwall - 29 Blue-winged Teal - 75 Northern Shoveler - 70 Ring-necked Duck - 14 Lesser Scaup - 3 Ruddy Duck - 11 Pied-billed Grebe – 31 Neotropic Cormorant - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 9 Anhinga - 42 Great-blue Heron - 10 Great Egret - 27 Snowy Egret - 10 Little-blue Heron - 20 Cattle Egret - 1 Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 2 White Ibis - 5 adults Black Vulture - 120 Turkey Vulture – 11 Northern Harrier - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 5 King Rail - 1 Common Gallinule - 9 American Coot – 445 American Golden-Plover - 2 Greater Yellowlegs - 9 Lesser Yellowlegs - 2 Pectoral Sandpiper - 26 Wilson's Snipe - 10 Mourning Dove - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 1 White-eyed Vireo - 3 Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow – 4 Fish Crow - 2 Tree Swallow - 28 Barn Swallow - 5 Carolina Chickadee - 5 Tufted Titmouse - 11 Carolina Wren - 7 Marsh Wren - 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 Eastern Bluebird - 3 Hermit Thrush - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Nashville Warbler - 1 Northern Parula - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 3 Field Sparrow - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 4 Swamp Sparrow - 5 White-throated Sparrow - 3 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Northern Cardinal – 17 Red-winged Blackbird – 14 Common Grackle - 16 Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 American Goldfinch - 4 Odonates: Fragile Forktail Common Green Darner "red" Saddlebags Herps: American Alligator Softshell Turtle species Red-eared Slider Western Cottonmouth Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog Coastal Plain Leopard Frog Bullfrog 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!8PlydDVpCqT8l4sx0njlinnZn-SBzzbD3Ko_xqLa-iUybN3UsGz81gd4ztdSgy5-wqT6M7-G-CZ7DY0_MfkPng$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!8PlydDVpCqT8l4sx0njlinnZn-SBzzbD3Ko_xqLa-iUybN3UsGz81gd4ztdSgy5-wqT6M7-G-CZ7DY0_MfkPng$ [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!8PlydDVpCqT8l4sx0njlinnZn-SBzzbD3Ko_xqLa-iUybN3UsGz81gd4ztdSgy5-wqT6M7-G-CZ7DY2AkCTWOw$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!8PlydDVpCqT8l4sx0njlinnZn-SBzzbD3Ko_xqLa-iUybN3UsGz81gd4ztdSgy5-wqT6M7-G-CZ7DY2AkCTWOw$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] ]

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