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Date: 9/23/25 8:18 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Sep. 23
It was overcast and mild, with a light wind, turning partly cloudy and hot with moderate wind. 52 species were found. Of note today were 6 Wood Storks, a Magnolia Warbler, and an adult Yellow-billed Cuckoo feeding a fledged juvenile which seems really late. The heronry on Pintail Lake was completely empty today. I suspect there are still birds roosting there at night though. I have been spending the early morning hours looking for migrant Passerines before I survey the reservoirs. The staging Black-bellied Whistling Duck numbers are continuing to climb. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 326 Wood Duck - 6 Blue-winged Teal - 14 Ring-necked Duck - 5 Pied-billed Grebe – 2 Neotropic Cormorant - 1 Anhinga - 2 Great-blue Heron - 7 Great Egret - 7 Snowy Egret - 21 Little-blue Heron - 15 Cattle Egret - 9 Green Heron - 2 Plegadis species - 2 Wood Stork - 6 Black Vulture - 12 Turkey Vulture – 74 Red-shouldered Hawk - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Purple Gallinule - 64 Common Gallinule - 115 American Coot – 4 Killdeer - 1 Rock Pigeon - 2 Mourning Dove - 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 (adult feeding fledgling.) Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1 Loggerhead Shrike - 1 White-eyed Vireo - 5 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - 9 American Crow - 8 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 37 Barn Swallow - 1 Carolina Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 6 White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Carolina Wren - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Summer Tanager - 2 Northern Cardinal – 7 Indigo Bunting - 2 Odonates: Common Green Darner Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Twelve-spotted Skimmer Great-blue Skimmer Wandering Glider Black Saddlebags Herps: Red-eared Slider Diamondback Water Snake Prairie Kingsnake Coastal Plains Leopard Frog 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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