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Date: 8/14/26 3:13 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Aug. 14
Start Time: 0640 Stop Time: 1326 The survey started off clear, warm and calm but soon turned hot and windy. 55 species were found. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks are starting to stage early at Red Slough this year with most being on Lotus and Pintail Lakes. Huge numbers of vultures appeared to be migrating as they were in huge groups very high up and appeared to be moving southwest. A lot were too far away to I.D. to exact species but most appeared to be Turkey Vultures. I have seen them do this in the late summer several times before. No storks or spoonbills yet. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 63 Wood Duck - 15 Ring-necked Duck - 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 6 Neotropic Cormorant - 8 Anhinga - 27 Great-blue Heron - 7 Great Egret - 4 Snowy Egret - 19 Little-blue Heron - 23 Cattle Egret - 83 Green Heron - 12 White Ibis - 8 Black Vulture - 10 Turkey Vulture – 186 Mississippi Kite - 4 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Purple Gallinule - 64 Common Gallinule - 53 American Coot – 4 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Mourning Dove - 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 8 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 Alder Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 3 White-eyed Vireo- 7 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 American Crow - 5 Fish Crow - 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 15 Cliff Swallow - 4 Barn Swallow - 20 Carolina Chickadee - 6 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Carolina Wren - 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 American Robin - 1 Gray Catbird - 1 Prothonotary Warbler - 4 (family group) Common Yellowthroat - 3 Northern Cardinal – 13 Indigo Bunting - 9 Dickcissel - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 2 Common Grackle - 25 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 Herps: Blanchard's Cricket Frog Green Frog Odes: Lilypad Forktail Blue-tipped Dancer Common Green Darner Swamp Darner Halloween Pennant Four-spotted Pennant Eastern Pondhawk Slaty Skimmer Blue Dasher Spot-winged Glider Wandering Glider Striped Saddlebags Black Saddlebags Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR ############################ To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list: write to: mailto:<ARBIRD-L-SIGNOFF-REQUEST...> or click the following link: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1

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