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Date: 12/24/25 7:38 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Dec. 24
It started off overcast with heavy fog, mild, and calm; turning partly cloudy, warm (upper 70's) and windy around noon on the survey today. 59 species were found. Notable finds today included Neotropic Cormorants, American Bittern, and a backlit large falcon species. Here is my list for today: Snow Geese - 3 Gadwall - 639 American Wigeon - 6 Mallard - 313 Blue-winged Teal - 2 Northern Shoveler - 100 Northern Pintail - 3 Green-winged Teal - 200 Ring-necked Duck - 1400 Bufflehead - 5 Ruddy Duck - 7 Pied-billed Grebe – 15 Neotropic Cormorant - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 American Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 11 Great Egret - 5 Black Vulture - 8 Turkey Vulture – 17 Northern Harrier - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Prairie/Peregrine Falcon - 1 American Kestrel - 2 Virginia Rail - 2 American Coot – 500 Killdeer - 3 Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Wilson's Snipe - 5 Mourning Dove - 1 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 4 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 5 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow - 55 Fish Crow - 13 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 2 Carolina Wren - 6 Winter Wren - 2 Sedge Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Brown Thrasher - 1 American Pipit - 7 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Eastern Towhee - 1 Fox Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal – 8 Red-winged Blackbird - 300 Eastern Meadowlark - 35 Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Odonates: Variegated Meadowhawk 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!5k7Zh8yPO8Xom3coybb3VcwUyl934kqKA0OhT79LSQhQkb-fbymSkFOeDlBXEQ572-NEeUwm83oKKx0zk4AdoA$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!5k7Zh8yPO8Xom3coybb3VcwUyl934kqKA0OhT79LSQhQkb-fbymSkFOeDlBXEQ572-NEeUwm83oKKx0zk4AdoA$ [pbase[.]com] ]

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