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Date: 3/9/26 8:41 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Mar. 9
It was overcast, mild, and windy, turning warm and partly cloudy in the late afternoon, on the bird survey today. 56 species were found. Highlights include the return of Anhingas and one White-eyed Vireo. Here is my list for today: Canada Geese - 5 Wood Duck - 18 Gadwall - 13 Mallard - 5 Blue-winged Teal - 112 Northern Shoveler - 385 Northern Pintail - 6 Green-winged Teal - 2 Ring-necked Duck - 32 Hooded Merganser - 5 Ruddy Duck - 4 Pied-billed Grebe – 26 Neotropic Cormorant - 7 Double-crested Cormorant - 3 Anhinga - 3 Great-blue Heron - 7 Great Egret - 3 Black Vulture - 4 Turkey Vulture – 11 Northern Harrier - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 American Kestrel - 2 King Rail - 2 (giving territorial calls) American Coot – 404 Greater Yellowlegs - 3 Least Sandpiper - 15 Barred Owl - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 1 White-eyed Vireo - 1 (New early date) Blue Jay - 10 American Crow - 10 Fish Crow - 24 Tree Swallow - 7 Carolina Chickadee - 6 Tufted Titmouse - 9 Carolina Wren - 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Eastern Bluebird - 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5 Pine Warbler - 1 Eastern Towhee - 3 Savannah Sparrow - 1 White-throated Sparrow - 27 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Northern Cardinal – 16 Red-winged Blackbird - 40 Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Common Grackle - 1 Purple Finch - 4 American Goldfinch - 4 Herps: American Alligators Red-eared Slider Southern Painted Turtle Western Cottonmouths Eastern Gray Treefrogs (calling) Green Treefrog (calling) Spring Peepers (calling) Cajun Chorus Frogs (calling) Blanchard's Cricket Frogs (calling) Odonates: Damselfly species (teneral) Common Green Darner 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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