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Date: 2/11/26 5:11 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Feb. 11
It was mostly overcast, mild (60's), and a bit windy on the survey today. 51 species were found. Neotropic Cormorants have returned and will start nesting in early March. Spring is almost here! Frogs are singing; butterflies are out, and plum and pear trees are starting to bloom. Here is my list for today: Greater White-fronted Geese - 10 Canada Geese - 11 Wood Duck - 16 Gadwall - 362 Mallard - 557 Northern Shoveler - 192 Northern Pintail - 52 Green-winged Teal - 14 Ring-necked Duck - 87 Lesser Scaup - 2 Bufflehead - 8 Hooded Merganser - 13 Ruddy Duck - 15 Pied-billed Grebe – 18 Neotropic Cormorant - 4 Double-crested Cormorant - 6 Great-blue Heron - 10 Great Egret - 2 Black Vulture - 3 Turkey Vulture – 15 Bald Eagle - 2 (1 imm. & 1 adult) Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 American Kestrel - 3 Merlin - 1 American Coot – 735 Killdeer - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 3 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 262 Fish Crow - 43 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 6 Carolina Wren - 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Eastern Bluebird - 9 Hermit Thrush - 1 Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 13 Pine Warbler - 1 Eastern Towhee - 1 Song Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 1 White-throated Sparrow - 13 Northern Cardinal – 6 Red-winged Blackbird - 7 American Goldfinch - 1 Herps: Red-eared Slider Southern Painted Turtle Cajun Chorus Frog (calling) Coastal Plain Leopard Frog (calling) 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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