Date: 8/5/26 10:08 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - August 5
Start Time: 0724
Stop Time: 1424
The morning started off clear, warm and calm on the bird survey today but turned partly cloudy, hot, and a little windy in the afternoon. 56 species were found. Best highlight today was an early American Redstart. Here is my list for today:
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 6
Wood Duck - 3
Pied-billed Grebe – 7
Neotropic Cormorant - 16 (3 sitting on nests.)
Anhinga - 17
Great-blue Heron - 3
Great Egret - 6
Snowy Egret - 6
Little-blue Heron - 9
Cattle Egret - 25
Green Heron - 5
White Ibis - 5
Black Vulture - 16
Turkey Vulture – 6
Mississippi Kite - 77
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2
Purple Gallinule - 61
Common Gallinule - 40
American Coot – 3
Mourning Dove - 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Hairy Woodpecker - 1
Pileated Woodpecker - 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1
Acadian Flycatcher - 1
Alder Flycatcher - 1
Great-crested Flycatcher - 1
Eastern Kingbird - 1
White-eyed Vireo- 9
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 1
American Crow - 4
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 3
Cliff Swallow - 4
Barn Swallow - 12
Carolina Chickadee - 4
Tufted Titmouse - 9
Carolina Wren - 12
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3
Gray Catbird - 1
Prairie Warbler - 1
Black-and-white Warbler - 1
American Redstart - 1 (female/imm. bird; new early date for Fall migration.)
