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Date: 4/15/25 7:52 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 15
It was partly cloudy, mild, and a little windy on the bird survey today. 66 species were found. Numerous Anhingas, Neotropic Cormorants, and Little-blue Herons are now sitting on nests on Pintail Lake. Gallinule numbers are increasing. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 5 Wood Duck - 6 Blue-winged Teal - 66 Northern Shoveler - 5 Ring-necked Duck - 3 Hooded Merganser - 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 18 Neotropic Cormorant - 18 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Anhinga - 76 American Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 13 Great Egret - 38 Snowy Egret - 12 Little-blue Heron - 53 Green Heron - 3 White Ibis - 3 Black Vulture - 12 Turkey Vulture – 27 Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 King Rail - 1 Sora - 2 Purple Gallinule - 10 Common Gallinule - 63 American Coot – 290 Mourning Dove - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1 Loggerhead Shrike - 1 White-eyed Vireo - 17 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow – 4 Fish Crow - 5 Purple Martin - 1 Tree Swallow - 31 Barn Swallow - 16 Carolina Chickadee - 3 Tufted Titmouse - 7 Carolina Wren - 11 Sedge Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 3 Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 Prairie Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 7 Kentucky Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 8 Summer Tanager - 2 Eastern Towhee - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Northern Cardinal – 12 Blue Grosbeak - 1 Indigo Bunting - 1 Red-winged Blackbird – 24 Common Grackle - 20 Brown-headed Cowbird - 14 Odonates: Common Green Darner Baskettail species Eastern Pondhawk Black Saddlebags Herps: American Alligator Eastern River Cooter Red-eared Slider Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog 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!6tToYjmZt-fbT4LK7LVtpF9Z2XswaCnkB2pLSCGftSGBmm7rNg_hvBJ8h6Wr3mOHh7E3cKejRCjH9ryNKRr-cA$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!6tToYjmZt-fbT4LK7LVtpF9Z2XswaCnkB2pLSCGftSGBmm7rNg_hvBJ8h6Wr3mOHh7E3cKejRCjH9ryNKRr-cA$ [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!6tToYjmZt-fbT4LK7LVtpF9Z2XswaCnkB2pLSCGftSGBmm7rNg_hvBJ8h6Wr3mOHh7E3cKejRCjH9ryYYz_JHw$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!6tToYjmZt-fbT4LK7LVtpF9Z2XswaCnkB2pLSCGftSGBmm7rNg_hvBJ8h6Wr3mOHh7E3cKejRCjH9ryYYz_JHw$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] ]

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