Date: 3/19/26 7:10 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - March 19

It was mostly clear & warm, and a little windy, on the survey today. 62 species were found. Migration is really starting to pick up. A number of new arrivals around today. Duck numbers are decreasing sharply. Had another flock of Sandhill Cranes migrating over today. A Horned Grebe on Lotus Lake was noteworthy as we rarely see these here. The first returning Common Gallinule of the year was seen today on Lotus Lake. Here is my list for today:





Canada Geese - 11

Wood Duck - 11

Gadwall - 27

Mallard - 2

Blue-winged Teal - 81

Northern Shoveler - 88

Northern Pintail - 3

Green-winged Teal - 4

Ring-necked Duck - 41

Bufflehead - 2

Hooded Merganser - 1

Ruddy Duck - 1

Wild Turkey - 1

Pied-billed Grebe – 45

Horned Grebe - 1

Neotropic Cormorant - 3

Double-crested Cormorant - 6

Anhinga - 9

Great-blue Heron - 11

Great Egret - 11

Little-blue Heron - 2

Black Vulture - 3

Turkey Vulture – 27

Northern Harrier - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 2

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

American Kestrel - 1

King Rail - 2

Common Gallinule - 1

Sandhill Crane - 23

American Coot – 425

Killdeer - 11

Greater Yellowlegs - 96

Pectoral Sandpiper - 2

Rock Pigeon - 6

Mourning Dove - 2

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2

Downy Woodpecker - 2

Northern Flicker - 1

Pileated Woodpecker - 1

Eastern Phoebe - 1

White-eyed Vireo - 2

American Crow - 4

Fish Crow - 80

Tree Swallow - 27

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1

Carolina Chickadee - 11

Tufted Titmouse - 6

Carolina Wren - 9

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3

Eastern Bluebird - 4

Hermit Thrush - 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 7

Yellow-throated Warbler - 1

Pine Warbler - 2

Eastern Towhee - 2

White-throated Sparrow - 10

Northern Cardinal – 15

Red-winged Blackbird - 7

Common Grackle - 1

Brown-headed Cowbird - 1







Herps:




American Alligator

Red-eared Slider

Southern Painted Turtle

Blanchard's Cricket Frogs

Coastal Plain Leopard Frog

Bullfrog




Odonates:




Damselfly species

Common Green Darner

Baskettail species

Common Whitetail

Black Saddlebags




Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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