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Date: 11/24/25 6:24 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Nov. 24
It was overcast, cool, and mostly raining, with a light wind, on the bird survey today. 53 species were found. The rain made visibility very difficult when I was trying to count ducks on the reservoirs. As a result, ducks on the far back side of the lakes were not visible so couldn't be counted which is why duck numbers are down. Only the black heads of the Ring-necked Ducks could be seen through the hazy rainfall. The last couple hours of the survey the rain stopped which allowed me to find some Passerines. Highlight of the day was an adult Crested Caracara circling low over a deer carcass along Red Slough road. He landed briefly in a tree but was quickly chased off by 3 crows. Here is my list for today: Greater White-fronted Geese - 25 Canada Geese - 21 Wood Duck - 1 Gadwall - 305 Mallard - 37 Blue-winged Teal - 3 Northern Shoveler - 39 Green-winged Teal - 10 Ring-necked Duck - 1360 Hooded Merganser - 4 Ruddy Duck - 3 Pied-billed Grebe – 9 Neotropic Cormorant - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Great-blue Heron - 8 Great Egret - 7 Plegadis species - 7 Turkey Vulture – 6 Northern Harrier - 2 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Crested Caracara - 1 adult American Kestrel - 2 Merlin - 1 Common Gallinule - 10 American Coot – 268 Greater Yellowlegs - 4 Mourning Dove - 1 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 7 Eastern Phoebe - 4 Loggerhead Shrike - 1 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 8 Carolina Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Carolina Wren - 3 Sedge Wren - 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Brown Thrasher - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 6 Pine Warbler - 1 Eastern Towhee - 1 Chipping Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 24 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Northern Cardinal – 17 Red-winged Blackbird - 29 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 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 ] ############################ 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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