Date: 4/10/25 6:06 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 10


It was partly cloudy and warm, with a light wind on the bird survey today. 75 species were found. Its been two weeks since I did a bird survey and things have really changed. Most of our winter ducks have departed and a lot of our summer breeders have arrived. Notable recent arrivals include Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, Purple Gallinules, Green Herons, Red-eyed Vireos, Prothonotary Warblers, Orchard Oriole, etc. Also of note, Little-blue Herons and Anhingas are already starting to nest on Pintail Lake. Here is my list for today:





Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 16

Canada Geese - 4

Wood Duck - 11

Gadwall - 7

Blue-winged Teal - 38

Northern Shoveler - 23

Ring-necked Duck - 1

Lesser Scaup - 1

Hooded Merganser - 2

Ruddy Duck - 3

Pied-billed Grebe – 33

Neotropic Cormorant - 1

Double-crested Cormorant - 6

Anhinga - 75

American Bittern - 4

Great-blue Heron - 9

Great Egret - 27

Snowy Egret - 10

Little-blue Heron - 157

Green Heron - 11

Black Vulture - 9

Turkey Vulture – 30

Northern Harrier - 3

Cooper's Hawk - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1

Broad-winged Hawk - 18 (migrating flock)

King Rail - 2

Purple Gallinule - 6

Common Gallinule - 51

American Coot – 250

Spotted Sandpiper - 1

Mourning Dove - 2

Barred Owl - 1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2

Belted Kingfisher - 3

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4

Downy Woodpecker - 3

Pileated Woodpecker - 2

Eastern Phoebe - 1

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 2

Loggerhead Shrike - 1

White-eyed Vireo - 15

Yellow-throated Vireo - 2

Red-eyed Vireo - 2

Blue Jay - 3

American Crow – 3

Fish Crow - 4

Tree Swallow - 71

Cliff Swallow - 12

Barn Swallow - 3

Carolina Chickadee - 5

Tufted Titmouse - 7

Carolina Wren - 10

Marsh Wren - 3

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4

Eastern Bluebird - 2

Northern Mockingbird - 2

Orange-crowned Warbler - 1

Northern Parula - 2

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 12

Yellow-throated Warbler - 1

Black-and-white Warbler - 1

Prothonotary Warbler - 7

Common Yellowthroat - 6

Summer Tanager - 2

Savannah Sparrow - 7

Lincoln's Sparrow - 4

Swamp Sparrow - 3

White-throated Sparrow - 4

Northern Cardinal – 10

Red-winged Blackbird – 17

Common Grackle - 20

Brown-headed Cowbird - 6

Orchard Oriole - 1




Odonates:




Common Green Darner

Eastern Pondhawk

Black Saddlebags

"red" Saddlebags







Herps:




American Alligator

Red-eared Slider

Western Cottonmouth

Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

Blanchard's Cricket Frog

Green Treefrog

Bullfrog




Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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