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Date: 4/10/25 6:10 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 Check out the Red Slough Photo Gallery: [ https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma \| https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma ] Birders Guide to the Red Slough WMA: [ https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 \| https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 ] ############################ To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list: write to: mailto:<ARBIRD-L-SIGNOFF-REQUEST...> or click the following link: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1

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