Date: 10/23/26 3:50 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - October 23

Time Started: 0829
Time Finished: 1517



It was partly cloudy and warm, with a light wind on the bird survey today. 53 species were found. Our winter birds are finally starting to pour in. Lots of sparrows and 8 species of ducks now. Got a new high count on whistling Ducks. Purple Gallinules are almost all gone. Here is my list for today:




Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 615

Wood Duck - 25

Gadwall - 16

American Wigeon - 2

Blue-winged Teal - 2

Northern Pintail - 2

Green-winged Teal - 42

Ring-necked Duck - 25

Pied-billed Grebe – 10

Great-blue Heron - 4

Great Egret - 1

Little-blue Heron - 2

Cattle Egret - 3

Black Vulture - 7

Turkey Vulture – 46

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

American Kestrel - 2

Purple Gallinule - 6

Common Gallinule - 11

American Coot - 115

Killdeer - 12

Wilson's Snipe - 2

Mourning Dove - 1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 6

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3

Downy Woodpecker - 4

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker - 6

Pileated Woodpecker - 2

Eastern Phoebe - 10

Blue Jay - 4

American Crow - 8

Barn Swallow - 1

Carolina Chickadee - 7

Tufted Titmouse - 7

Carolina Wren - 4

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 3

Hermit Thrush - 1

Brown Thrasher - 3

Orange-crowned Warbler - 3

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1

Pine Warbler - 2

Common Yellowthroat - 2

Wilson's Warbler - 1

Savannah Sparrow - 9

Song Sparrow - 1

Lincoln's Sparrow - 2

Swamp Sparrow - 31

White-throated Sparrow - 4

White-crowned Sparrow - 1

Northern Cardinal - 4







Odonates:




Common Green Darner

Eastern Pondhawk

Wandering Glider

Striped Saddlebags







Herps:




Red-eared Slider

Southern Painted Turtle







Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR


 
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