Date: 6/19/25 6:48 pm From: Ashlyn Ohm <4ever4hiskingdom...> Subject: Re: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 18
Thank you so much for the detailed reports from Red Slough!
I am interested in seeing many of these species for my bird year and life lists. However, I have never been to Red Slough. What is the access like there? Can the birds be seen from a car, or is walking required? I don’t mind walking but would like to avoid ticks and chiggers this time of year!
Also, can I see the birds with bins, or do I need a scope?
Thank you so much!
Ashlyn
> On Jun 18, 2025, at 7:08 PM, <arbour...> <arbour...> wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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
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> Odonates:
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> Prince Baskettail
> Eastern Pondhawk
> Blue Dasher
> Great-blue Skimmer
> Common Whitetail
> "red" Saddlebags
> Black Saddlebags
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> Herps:
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> Three-toed Box Turtle
> Blanchard's Cricket Frog
> Green Treefrog
> Green Frog
> Bullfrog
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> Good birding!
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> David Arbour
> De Queen, AR
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> Birders Guide to the Red Slough WMA: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 >
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