Date: 6/23/26 8:14 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - June 23
It was overcast and rainy, with some on and off light wind on the bird survey today. 63 species were found. We have received around 11 inches of rain over the past 7 days and half of that fell today and it is still raining there. The whole place is flooded. Black Land and Sand Roads are under water and the north parking lot has close to 2 feet of water over it. Red Slough road is a bad muddy mess. More ran coming tonight and tomorrow. Here is my list for today:
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 5
Wood Duck - 5
Ring-necked Duck - 4
Pied-billed Grebe – 6
Neotropic Cormorant - 4 (3 sitting on nests.)
Anhinga - 29
Least Bittern - 1
Great-blue Heron - 2
Great Egret - 12
Snowy Egret - 7
Little-blue Heron - 15 (One sitting on a nest.)
Cattle Egret - 350
Green Heron - 9
Black-crowned Night Heron - 1
White Ibis - 3
Black Vulture - 18
Turkey Vulture – 12
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Purple Gallinule - 150
Common Gallinule - 164
American Coot – 9
Killdeer - 3
Rock Pigeon - 13
Mourning Dove - 11
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Phoebe - 1
Great-crested Flycatcher - 2
Eastern Kingbird - 2
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 2
White-eyed Vireo- 3
Bell's Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
Blue Jay - 1
American Crow - 3
Fish Crow - 2
Purple Martin - 1
Tree Swallow - 11
Cliff Swallow - 11
Barn Swallow - 11
Carolina Chickadee - 2
Tufted Titmouse - 1
Carolina Wren - 9
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 5
Eastern Bluebird - 2
Wood Thrush - 1
Northern Mockingbird - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
Prothonotary Warbler - 9
Common Yellowthroat - 8
Yellow-breasted Chat - 6
Summer Tanager - 3
Eastern Towhee - 2
Northern Cardinal – 19
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 22
Painted Bunting - 6
Dickcissel - 3
Red-winged Blackbird - 32
Common Grackle - 9
Brown-headed Cowbird - 6
Orchard Oriole - 3
Herps:
American Alligator
Red-eared Slider
Southern Painted Turtle
Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad - calling
Cajun Chorus Frogs - calling (really unusual to hear these calling in Summer!)
