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Date: 3/7/23 6:13 pm From: Dave Arbour <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - March 7
It started off overcast, cool, and windy on the bird survey today but turned partly cloudy, warm, with a light wind in the afternoon. 60 species were found. Biggest highlight was a small flock of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks which is the earliest I have ever had them return. Duck numbers are dropping as they are starting to move north. No sign of the Northern Shrike this week. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 5 (new early date for RS!) Canada Goose - 13 Wood Duck - 23 Gadwall - 305 American Wigeon - 1 Mallard - 2 Blue-winged Teal - 16 Northern Shoveler - 165 Northern Pintail - 1 Green-winged Teal - 3 Ring-necked Duck - 55 Hooded Merganser - 23 Ruddy Duck - 11 Pied-billed Grebe - 33 Neotropic Cormorant - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 19 Great-blue Heron - 6 Great Egret - 1 Black Vulture - 44 Turkey Vulture - 85 Northern Harrier - 2 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 American Coot - 530 King Rail - 1 Killdeer - 1 Wilson's Snipe - 20 Belted Kingfisher - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 5 Northern Flicker - 31 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Blue Jay - 1 American Crow - 6 Fish Crow - 7 Tree Swallow - 22 Carolina Chickadee - 6 Tufted Titmouse - 7 Brown Creeper - 1 Carolina Wren - 6 Sedge Wren - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2 Hermit Thrush - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Brown Thrasher - 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20 Pine Warbler - 5 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Eastern Towhee - 4 Savannah Sparrow - 8 Fox Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 4 Swamp Sparrow - 6 White-throated Sparrow - 7 Dark-eyed Junco - 3 Northern Cardinal - 16 Red-winged Blackbird - 138 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 Common Grackle - 4 House Finch - 1 Odonates: Common Green Darner Variegated Meadowhawk Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Southern Painted Turtle Broad-banded Watersnake Plain-bellied Watersnake Blanchard's Cricket frog - calling Spring Peeper - calling Coastal Plain Leopard Frog - calling Bullfrog Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR Check out the Red Slough Photo Gallery: https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma

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