Date: 6/5/26 4:45 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 5
It was overcast, mild (70's), with some rain and a light wind on the survey today. 55 species were found. Best find today was a Least Bittern, since they have been really scarce this year. Here is my list for today:
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 9
Wood Duck - 5
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Pied-billed Grebe – 2
Neotropic Cormorant - 2
Anhinga - 26
Least Bittern - 1
Great-blue Heron - 3
Great Egret - 5
Snowy Egret - 3
Little-blue Heron - 13
Cattle Egret - 109
Green Heron - 3
White Ibis - 15
Black Vulture - 13
Turkey Vulture – 41
Mississippi Kite - 3
Purple Gallinule - 141
Common Gallinule - 90
American Coot – 8
Rock Pigeon - 1
Mourning Dove - 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 7
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Acadian Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 4
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1
White-eyed Vireo- 10
Bell's Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 6
American Crow - 3
Fish Crow - 7
Tree Swallow - 11
Cliff Swallow - 8
Barn Swallow - 5
Carolina Chickadee - 1
Tufted Titmouse - 10
Carolina Wren - 12
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Prothonotary Warbler - 7
Common Yellowthroat - 6
Yellow-breasted Chat - 12
Summer Tanager - 3
Northern Cardinal – 25
Blue Grosbeak - 3
Indigo Bunting - 18
Painted Bunting - 8
Dickcissel - 13
Red-winged Blackbird - 15
Common Grackle - 4
Brown-headed Cowbird - 14
Orchard Oriole - 3
Herps:
American Alligator
Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad - calling
Blanchard's Cricket Frog - calling
Green Treefrog - calling
Cajun Chorus Frog - calling (latest I have ever heard them.)
