Date: 3/27/25 9:21 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






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