Date: 6/15/26 5:22 pm From: Laura Erickson <chickadee...> Subject: Re: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 10
I live in northern Minnesota and I always look forward to David's posts.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM Shirley Maas <
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> Ditto I look forward to your reports every week Don Maas “If you do not
> take an interest in the affairs of your government then you are doomed to
> live under the rules of fools. Plato “You can ignore reality, but you
> cannot ignore the consequences
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> Ditto I look forward to your reports every week Don Maas
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> “If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government then you
> are doomed to live under the rules of fools.
> Plato
> “You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of
> reality.”
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> Don & Shirley Maas
> The Maas’s have migrated to the Valley of the Sun in Mesa, AZ from
> Choctaw, Ok for the winter.
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> On Monday, June 15, 2026, 9:28 AM, Ellie Womack <womackele...>
> wrote:
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> Thanks again for your posts. On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 8: 35 AM arbour@
> windstream. net <arbour@ windstream. net> wrote: It was mostly overcast,
> warm, and a bit windy on the bird survey today. 67 species were found. The
> first broods of Purple
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 8:35 AM <arbour...> <
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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
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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:
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>
> *Black-bellied Whistling Duck* - 8
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> Wood Duck - 14
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> Ring-necked Duck - 3
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> Pied-billed Grebe – 10
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> *Neotropic Cormorant* - 2
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> *Anhinga *- 28
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> Great-blue Heron - 2
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> Great Egret - 12
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> Snowy Egret - 23
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> Little-blue Heron - 28
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> Cattle Egret - 230
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> Green Heron - 8
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> *White Ibis* - 93
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> Black Vulture - 16
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> Turkey Vulture – 32
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> Mississippi Kite - 4
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> Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
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> *Purple Gallinule* - 123
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> *Common Gallinule* - 93
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> American Coot – 11
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> Killdeer - 1
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> Mourning Dove - 10
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> Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 9
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> Barred Owl - 1
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> Belted Kingfisher - 1
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> Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
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> Downy Woodpecker - 3
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> Hairy Woodpecker - 1
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> Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
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> Acadian Flycatcher - 3
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> Eastern Phoebe - 1
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> Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
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> Eastern Kingbird - 1
>
> Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 4
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> White-eyed Vireo- 11
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> Red-eyed Vireo - 4
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> Blue Jay - 3
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> American Crow - 6
>
> Fish Crow - 5
>
> Purple Martin - 4
>
> Tree Swallow - 16
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> Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 4
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> Cliff Swallow - 13
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> Barn Swallow - 8
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> Tufted Titmouse - 4
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> Carolina Wren - 13
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> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2
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> Eastern Bluebird - 2
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> Northern Parula - 1
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> Pine Warbler - 1
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> Prairie Warbler - 1
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> Prothonotary Warbler - 9
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> Kentucky Warbler - 1
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> Common Yellowthroat - 13
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> Yellow-breasted Chat - 6
>
> Summer Tanager - 1
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> Eastern Towhee - 1
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> Northern Cardinal – 14
>
> Blue Grosbeak - 1
>
> Indigo Bunting - 31
>
> Painted Bunting - 9
>
> Dickcissel - 13
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> Red-winged Blackbird - 36
>
> Common Grackle - 13
>
> Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
>
> Orchard Oriole - 4
>
> House Sparrow - 2
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>
> *Herps:*
>
>
> American Alligator
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> Red-eared Slider
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> Rough Green Snake
>
> Blanchard's Cricket Frog - calling
>
> Green Treefrog - calling
>
> Green Frog
>
> Bullfrog
>
>
>
> *Odes:*
>
>
> Prince Baskettail
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> Halloween Pennant
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> Eastern Pondhawk
>
> Blue Dasher
>
> Slaty Skimmer
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> Common Whitetail
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> Black Saddlebags
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> Good birding!
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>
>
> David Arbour
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> De Queen, AR
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There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the
winter.
--Rachel Carson
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