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Date: 7/27/22 4:57 pm From: David Arbour <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - July 27
Mike Dillon (TX) and I surveyed birds today at Red Slough and found 47 species. It was partly cloudy and hot with a light wind. Almost nothing was singing. Oh note, we had one of the continuing Limpkins and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks were apparently staging early as I had a large flock of 30+ birds plus several smaller groups. The heronry is now full of fledgling birds and gallinule young are everywhere you look. Here is our list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 43 Wood Duck - 17 Pied-billed Grebe - 10 Neotropic Cormorant - 10 Anhinga - 52 Great-blue Heron - 10 Great Egret - 17 Snowy Egret - 48 Little-blue Heron - 114 Cattle Egret - ~20,000 Green Heron - 17 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 5 White Ibis - 211 Black Vulture - 6 Turkey Vulture - 23 Mississippi Kite - 3 Purple Gallinule - 86 (adults & older young. Also, numerous broods of smaller young.) Common Gallinule - 75 (adults & older young. Also, numerous broods of smaller young.) American Coot - 1 Limpkin - 1 Spotted Sandpiper - 1 Solitary Sandpiper - 5 Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Kingbird - 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1 White-eyed Vireo - 4 American Crow - 4 Fish Crow - 1 Tree Swallow - 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 2 Cliff Swallow - 26 Barn Swallow - 13 Carolina Chickadee - 3 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Carolina Wren - 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 4 Eastern Towhee - 1 Northern Cardinal - 8 Indigo Bunting - 9 Painted Bunting - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - ~400 Common Grackle - ~400 Odonates: Prince Baskettail Halloween Pennant Slaty Skimmer Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Spot-winged Glider Wandering Glider Black Saddlebags Herps: American Alligator Blanchard's Cricket Frog Coastal Plain Leopard Frog Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR

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