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Date: 4/29/26 8:13 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 29
It was overcast, mild, and a little windy, with several thunderstorms including one that produced fairly large hail, on the bird survey today. 81 species were found. I mostly concentrated on migrant Passerines which were in short supply. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 9 Canada Geese - 13 Wood Duck - 39 Blue-winged Teal - 10 Ring-necked Duck - 3 Lesser Scaup - 3 Hooded Merganser - 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 8 Neotropic Cormorant - 26 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Anhinga - 48 Least Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 1 Great Egret - 43 Snowy Egret - 41 Little-blue Heron - 31 Cattle Egret - 107 Green Heron - 12 Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 6 White Ibis - 140 White-faced Ibis - 4 Black Vulture - 8 Turkey Vulture – 8 Mississippi Kite - 2 Red-shouldered Hawk - 6 King Rail - 2 Sora - 3 Purple Gallinule - 57 Common Gallinule - 120 American Coot – 14 Lesser Yellowlegs - 7 Small "Peeps" - 4 Mourning Dove - 13 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 5 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 2 White-eyed Vireo- 14 Warbling Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 6 Fish Crow - 7 Purple Martin - 11 Tree Swallow - 11 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Cliff Swallow - 10 Barn Swallow - 14 Carolina Chickadee - 4 Tufted Titmouse - 9 Carolina Wren - 13 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Wood Thrush - 2 Gray Catbird - 3 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Northern Yellow Warbler - 2 Prairie Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 11 Kentucky Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 13 Yellow-breasted Chat - 4 Summer Tanager - 6 Eastern Towhee - 3 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal – 12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 1 male Blue Grosbeak - 2 Indigo Bunting - 23 Painted Bunting - 6 Dickcissel - 29 Bobolink - 7 Red-winged Blackbird - 29 Common Grackle - 18 Brown-headed Cowbird - 25 Orchard Oriole - 6 Baltimore Oriole - 3 Herps: American Alligator Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Treefrog Green Frog Bullfrog Odonates: Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher 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!5EfbYc_upzCFfBzmbsAZ9AZ9LZ8gPjaTPeOy7jVlz_TiZusId3F_82odXONHkWsOYLkyu-m64BYEhQOSVenFPQ$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!5EfbYc_upzCFfBzmbsAZ9AZ9LZ8gPjaTPeOy7jVlz_TiZusId3F_82odXONHkWsOYLkyu-m64BYEhQOSVenFPQ$ [pbase[.]com] ]

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