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Date: 4/20/26 6:13 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 20
It was partly cloudy, mild, and a little windy on the bird survey today. 75 species were found. Lots of nesting Anhinga's and Neotropic Cormorants now. Their main nesting spot is on Otter Lake this year but there are a few Anhinga's nesting on Pintail Lake also. New FOS migrants showing up this week include Prairie Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, Northern Waterthrush, Gray Catbird, and Chimney Swift. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 3 Canada Geese - 5 Wood Duck - 11 Blue-winged Teal - 36 Ring-necked Duck - 1 Hooded Merganser - 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 14 Neotropic Cormorant - 22 Anhinga - 53 American Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 8 Great Egret - 23 Snowy Egret - 15 Little-blue Heron - 42 Cattle Egret - 4 Green Heron - 7 White Ibis - 292 Black Vulture - 3 Turkey Vulture – 17 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Sora - 2 Purple Gallinule - 47 Common Gallinule - 108 American Coot – 29 American Golden-Plover - 5 Killdeer - 1 Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 Mourning Dove - 3 Chimney Swift - 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 4 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1 White-eyed Vireo- 15 Yellow-throated Vireo - 2 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow - 7 Fish Crow - 9 Purple Martin - 3 Tree Swallow - 13 Cliff Swallow - 5 Barn Swallow - 7 Carolina Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 5 Carolina Wren - 14 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 7 Eastern Bluebird - 2 Wood Thrush - 3 Gray Catbird - 1 Brown Thrasher - 2 Nashville Warbler - 2 Northern Parula - 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 15 Prairie Warbler - 1 Prothonotary Warbler - 8 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 6 Yellow-breasted Chat - 2 Summer Tanager - 2 Eastern Towhee - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 2 White-throated Sparrow - 3 Northern Cardinal – 12 Indigo Bunting - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 33 Common Grackle - 14 Brown-headed Cowbird - 10 Orchard Oriole - 3 Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Southern Painted Turtle Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog Bullfrog Odonates: Fragile Forktail Common Green Darner Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Black Saddlebags 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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