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Date: 6/18/25 5:07 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 18
The bird survey started off overcast, mild, and windy, with a couple rain showers, then turned partly cloudy, warm, and calm around noon. 65 species were found. Lots of nesting activity going on in the heronries on Pintail and Otter Lakes and gallinule chicks everywhere. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 9 Wood Duck - 10 Mallard - 1 drake Ring-necked Duck - 8 (7 males & 1 female.) Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Neotropic Cormorant - 16 Anhinga - 106 Least Bittern - 5 Great-blue Heron - 2 Great Egret - 8 Snowy Egret - 8 Little-blue Heron - 69 Cattle Egret - 1300 Green Heron - 18 Black-crowned Night Heron - 1 Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 1 White Ibis - 10 Black Vulture - 6 Turkey Vulture – 7 Mississippi Kite - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Purple Gallinule - 127 Common Gallinule - 108 American Coot – 6 Mourning Dove - 17 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Acadian Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 3 White-eyed Vireo - 11 Bell's Vireo - 1 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 American Crow - 3 Fish Crow - 1 Tree Swallow - 16 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 5 Cliff Swallow - 10 Barn Swallow - 15 Carolina Chickadee - 3 Tufted Titmouse - 4 Carolina Wren - 10 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 Prairie Warbler - 1 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 13 Common Yellowthroat - 7 Yellow-breasted Chat - 6 Summer Tanager - 2 Eastern Towhee - 1 Northern Cardinal – 22 Blue Grosbeak - 2 Indigo Bunting - 20 Painted Bunting - 4 Dickcissel - 3 Red-winged Blackbird – 18 Common Grackle - 18 Brown-headed Cowbird - 10 Orchard Oriole - 3 Odonates: Prince Baskettail Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Great-blue Skimmer Common Whitetail "red" Saddlebags Black Saddlebags Herps: Three-toed Box Turtle Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog Green 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!59o68a9Zmp4lsGT7chKfs-HRmdY9cu6oqHZnpV0HAN1WkhE6MtEIijWp8UGfNLivUIPROuTWRITId6sI9h9N6A$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!59o68a9Zmp4lsGT7chKfs-HRmdY9cu6oqHZnpV0HAN1WkhE6MtEIijWp8UGfNLivUIPROuTWRITId6sI9h9N6A$ [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!59o68a9Zmp4lsGT7chKfs-HRmdY9cu6oqHZnpV0HAN1WkhE6MtEIijWp8UGfNLivUIPROuTWRITId6uvKiWDuA$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!59o68a9Zmp4lsGT7chKfs-HRmdY9cu6oqHZnpV0HAN1WkhE6MtEIijWp8UGfNLivUIPROuTWRITId6uvKiWDuA$ [fs[.]usda[.]gov] ]

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