Date: 10/14/26 6:20 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - October 14
Time started: 0743
Time finished: 1547
It was partly cloudy, warm & humid, with a little wind on the survey today. 52 species were found. Best highlight of the day was a new high count record of 597 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks that are staging on our reservoirs. I am sure there are a lot more as the dense vegetation (Lotus) is hiding a lot of the birds from my view. Also of note today was some morning flights of migrating warblers moving southward through the tree tops. The lighting was bad and the birds were high in the tree tops and not staying put long so I only managed to I.D. a few of them. But I probably saw close to 50 warblers total. Anhingas and Neotropic Cormorants appeared to all be gone now. Gallinules numbers are dropping fast. Only saw 3 adult Purple Gallinules today. The rest were juveniles. Here is my list for today:
