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Date: 2/28/23 8:24 pm From: Dave Arbour <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird survey - Feb. 28
It was mostly clear and warm, with a light wind on the bird survey today. 58 species were found. Highlights include the continuing Northern Shrike, Neotropic Cormorant, and the sudden re-appearance of King Rails. Spring has really sprung with Redbuds already blooming, butterflies everywhere, and now dragonflies are back. Here is my list for today: Canada Goose - 2 Wood Duck - 14 Gadwall - 68 Mallard - 29 Northern Shoveler - 27 Northern Pintail - 502 Lesser Scaup - 9 Ring-necked Duck - 45 Hooded Merganser - 16 Ruddy Duck - 49 Pied-billed Grebe - 34 American White Pelican - 7 Neotropic Cormorant - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 14 Great-blue Heron - 5 Black Vulture - 16 Turkey Vulture - 32 Bald Eagle - 1 (imm.) Northern Harrier - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 American Coot - 425 King Rail - 5 Killdeer - 12 Greater Yellowlegs - 2 Wilson's Snipe - 27 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 27 Eastern Phoebe - 4 Northern Shrike - 1 Blue Jay - 4 American Crow - 13 Fish Crow - 2 Tree Swallow - 18 Carolina Chickadee - 9 Tufted Titmouse - 5 Carolina Wren - 3 Winter Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 American Robin - 12 European Starling - 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 12 Pine Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 12 Fox Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 4 Swamp Sparrow - 4 White-throated Sparrow - 4 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Northern Cardinal - 11 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 Red-winged Blackbird - 360 Brown-headed Cowbird - 3 Common Grackle - 1 American Goldfinch - 8 Odonates: Fragile Forktail Common Green Darner Variegated Meadowhawk Herps: American Alligator Common Snapping Turtle Mississippi Mud Turtle Red-eared Slider Spring Peeper - calling Cajun Chorus Frog - calling Coastal Plain Leopard Frog - calling Bullfrog - calling Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR

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