Date: 10/29/26 4:22 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Oct. 29

Time Started: 0737


Time Finished: 1425




It was mostly overcast and mild, with an occasional breeze, turning partly cloudy, warm, and calm in the afternoon, on the bird survey today. 51 species were found. It was a slow day bird-wise with especially the Passerines not being very plentiful. Duck numbers are increasing. A few of our summer birds are still lingering. Here is my list for today:




Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 580

Canada Geese - 8

Wood Duck - 68

Gadwall - 88

American Wigeon - 2

Blue-winged Teal - 6

Northern Shoveler - 8

Northern Pintail - 7

Green-winged Teal - 30

Ring-necked Duck - 184

Pied-billed Grebe – 6

Anhinga - 1

Great-blue Heron - 7

Great Egret - 3

White Ibis - 9

Black Vulture - 2

Turkey Vulture – 60

Red-shouldered Hawk - 4

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

American Kestrel - 1

Purple Gallinule - 15

Common Gallinule - 27

American Coot - 250

Killdeer - 9

Greater Yellowlegs - 5

Long-billed Dowitcher - 1

Wilson's Snipe - 1

Belted Kingfisher - 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker - 4

Downy Woodpecker - 4

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker - 12

Eastern Phoebe - 7

Blue Jay - 2

American Crow - 45

Fish Crow - 1

Carolina Chickadee - 2

Carolina Wren - 3

House Wren - 1

Marsh Wren - 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1

Northern Mockingbird - 1

Brown Thrasher - 2

Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1

Eastern Towhee - 1

Song Sparrow - 1

Lincoln's Sparrow - 1

Swamp Sparrow - 3

Northern Cardinal - 3

Red-winged Blackbird - 86

Common Grackle - 1







Odonates:




Common Green Darner







Herps:




Coastal Plain Leopard Frog










Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR


 
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