Date: 6/15/26 5:17 pm
From: Shirley Maas <000000b508ae481a-dmarc-request...>
Subject: Re: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 10
Ditto I look forward to your reports every week Don Maas


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Don & Shirley MaasThe Maas’s have migrated to the Valley of the Sun in Mesa, AZ from Choctaw, Ok for the winter.

On Monday, June 15, 2026, 9:28 AM, Ellie Womack <womackele...> wrote:


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On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 8:35 AM <arbour...> <arbour...> wrote:

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It was mostly overcast, warm, and a bit windy on the bird survey today.  67 species were found.  The first broods of Purple Gallinules for the year were seen today and one bird was seen sitting on a floating nest among the lilypads.  There are two Anhinga rookery's on Pintail Lake now and 3 nests have young in them.  Some Cattle egrets are starting to hang out with them and at least one is already nest building.  Two Neotropic Cormorants are hanging out in there as well and may start nesting also.  Here is my list for today:



Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 8

Wood Duck - 14

Ring-necked Duck - 3

Pied-billed Grebe – 10

Neotropic Cormorant - 2

Anhinga - 28

Great-blue Heron - 2

Great Egret - 12

Snowy Egret - 23

Little-blue Heron - 28

Cattle Egret - 230

Green Heron - 8

White Ibis - 93

Black Vulture - 16

Turkey Vulture – 32

Mississippi Kite - 4

Red-shouldered Hawk - 2

Purple Gallinule - 123

Common Gallinule - 93

American Coot – 11

Killdeer - 1

Mourning Dove - 10

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 9

Barred Owl - 1

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3

Downy Woodpecker - 3

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1

Acadian Flycatcher - 3

Eastern Phoebe - 1

Great-crested Flycatcher - 1

Eastern Kingbird - 1

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 4

White-eyed Vireo- 11

Red-eyed Vireo - 4

Blue Jay - 3

American Crow - 6

Fish Crow - 5

Purple Martin - 4

Tree Swallow - 16

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4

Cliff Swallow - 13

Barn Swallow - 8

Tufted Titmouse - 4

Carolina Wren - 13

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2

Eastern Bluebird - 2

Northern Parula - 1

Pine Warbler - 1

Prairie Warbler - 1

Prothonotary Warbler - 9

Kentucky Warbler - 1

Common Yellowthroat - 13

Yellow-breasted Chat - 6

Summer Tanager - 1

Eastern Towhee - 1

Northern Cardinal – 14

Blue Grosbeak - 1

Indigo Bunting - 31

Painted Bunting - 9

Dickcissel - 13

Red-winged Blackbird - 36

Common Grackle - 13

Brown-headed Cowbird - 6

Orchard Oriole - 4

House Sparrow - 2













Herps:




American Alligator

Red-eared Slider

Rough Green Snake

Blanchard's Cricket Frog - calling

Green Treefrog - calling

Green Frog

Bullfrog







Odes:




Prince Baskettail

Halloween Pennant

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Slaty Skimmer

Common Whitetail

Black Saddlebags







Good birding!

 

David Arbour

De Queen, AR





 
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