Date: 9/28/26 7:29 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Sep. 25 (Belated Report)

Time started: 0724
Time finished: 1400

Last Friday (Sep. 25) I surveyed birds at Red Slough. The weather was partly cloudy, mild, and calm. 50 species were found. Birding was slow and only a few migrants were observed. Here is my list for that day:



Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 221

Wood Duck - 63

Blue-winged Teal - 11

Ring-necked Duck - 3

Pied-billed Grebe – 11

Neotropic Cormorant - 5

Anhinga - 10

Great-blue Heron - 2

Great Egret - 19

Snowy Egret - 24

Little-blue Heron - 7

Cattle Egret - 11

Green Heron - 7

White Ibis - 4

White-faced Ibis - 2 (red eyes)

Black Vulture - 34

Turkey Vulture – 30

Cooper's Hawk - 1

Red-shouldered Hawk - 3

Merlin - 1

Sora - 1

Purple Gallinule - 49

Common Gallinule - 80

American Coot - 3

Killdeer - 10

Solitary Sandpiper - 2

Lesser Yellowlegs - 1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1

Barred Owl - 1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1

Red-headed Woodpecker - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3

Downy Woodpecker - 3

Pileated Woodpecker - 5

Eastern Phoebe - 6

White-eyed Vireo- 7

Yellow-throated Vireo - 2

Blue Jay - 1

American Crow - 16

Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 200

Carolina Chickadee - 6

Tufted Titmouse - 2

Carolina Wren - 6

Marsh Wren - 1

Gray Catbird - 3

Brown Thrasher - 1

Common Yellowthroat - 2

Summer Tanager - 3

Northern Cardinal - 3

Red-winged Blackbird - 400




Herps:




American Alligator

Red -eared Slider

Eastern River Cooter




Odes:




Lilypad Forktail

Common Green Darner

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Wandering Glider

Red Saddlebags

Striped Saddlebags

Black Saddlebags







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR


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