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Date: 5/6/26 7:23 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - May 6
It was heavy overcast, cool, rainy, and windy on the survey today. 77 species were found. Best highlight was a Glossy Ibis in unit 15. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 11 Canada Geese - 13 Wood Duck - 7 Blue-winged Teal - 2 Hooded Merganser - 2 Pied-billed Grebe – 6 (2 on Nests) Neotropic Cormorant - 3 Anhinga - 15 Great-blue Heron - 3 Great Egret - 28 Snowy Egret - 20 Little-blue Heron - 27 Cattle Egret - 236 Green Heron - 11 Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 2 White Ibis - 166 White-faced Ibis - 1 Glossy Ibis - 1 (unit 15) Black Vulture - 2 Turkey Vulture – 10 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 King Rail - 1 Sora - 1 Purple Gallinule - 60 Common Gallinule - 59 American Coot – 3 Lesser Yellowlegs - 5 Solitary Sandpiper - 2 Pectoral Sandpiper - 8 Black Tern - 15 Mourning Dove - 9 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Chimney Swift - 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 15 White-eyed Vireo- 11 Bell's Vireo - 1 Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 2 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 6 Fish Crow - 4 Tree Swallow - 10 Cliff Swallow - 5 Barn Swallow - 9 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 6 Carolina Wren - 9 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Wood Thrush - 3 Gray Catbird - 1 European Starling - 1 Northern Yellow Warbler - 2 Prairie Warbler - 2 Prothonotary Warbler - 10 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Kentucky Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 13 Yellow-breasted Chat - 5 Summer Tanager - 3 Lincoln's Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal – 20 Blue Grosbeak - 1 Indigo Bunting - 27 Painted Bunting - 12 Dickcissel - 29 Bobolink - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 26 Common Grackle - 13 Brown-headed Cowbird - 15 Orchard Oriole - 8 Baltimore Oriole - 1 Herps: American Alligator 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!5s22x7FQ1a_QLUp7pN_lWz8O3YWVTvdISrDT5K6fAdLU7WyV1CwRSuY1eHIYDDfAS09LzW1m7k9cT9yacd9vlQ$ [pbase[.]com] \| https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!5s22x7FQ1a_QLUp7pN_lWz8O3YWVTvdISrDT5K6fAdLU7WyV1CwRSuY1eHIYDDfAS09LzW1m7k9cT9yacd9vlQ$ [pbase[.]com] ]

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