Date: 8/26/25 5:30 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - August 26


It was heavy overcast, windy, and cool with some light rain on the bird survey today. 46 species were found. The weather was not very conducive to finding birds and I had hopes of this cold front bringing some early migrants down but it didn't really produce. The only migrants were a few common shorebirds. Here is my list for today:





Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 3

Wood Duck - 116

Blue-winged Teal - 7

Ring-necked Duck - 8

Pied-billed Grebe – 11

Neotropic Cormorant - 17

Anhinga - 65

Great-blue Heron - 6

Great Egret - 17

Snowy Egret - 28

Little-blue Heron - 25

Cattle Egret - 525

Green Heron - 9

Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 3

White Ibis - 8

Black Vulture - 2

Turkey Vulture – 5

Red-shouldered Hawk - 7

Purple Gallinule - 81

Common Gallinule - 81

American Coot – 5

Killdeer - 17

Solitary Sandpiper - 5

Least Sandpiper - 12

Pectoral Sandpiper - 1

Mourning Dove - 22

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Eastern Phoebe - 1

Red-eyed Vireo - 1

American Crow - 5

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 11

Cliff Swallow - 1

Carolina Chickadee - 1

Tufted Titmouse - 4

Carolina Wren - 6

Northern Mockingbird - 1

Prothonotary Warbler - 2

Common Yellowthroat - 1

Summer Tanager - 3

Eastern Towhee - 1

Northern Cardinal – 4

Blue Grosbeak - 2

Indigo Bunting - 21

Painted Bunting - 1 (female feeding 2 fledgling cowbirds)

Red-winged Blackbird – 48

Brown-headed Cowbird - 2







Odonates:




Citrine Forktail

Four-spotted Pennant

Great-blue Skimmer

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Black Saddlebags










Herps:




American Alligator

Blanchard's Cricket Frog

Green Frog

Coastal Plain Leopard Frog







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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