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Date: 4/2/24 7:29 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - April 2
It started off partly cloudy and mild with a light wind, then turning overcast and cooler with a moderate wind about half way through the survey. 76 species were found. Almost overnight we have Black-bellied Whistling Ducks back, lots of freshly returned waders roosting in the heronry, Neotropic Cormorants sitting on nests, and duck numbers greatly decreased. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 8 Canada Geese – 4 Wood Duck - 11 Gadwall – 10 American Wigeon - 5 Blue-winged Teal - 93 Northern Shoveler - 32 Ring-necked Duck – 23 Bufflehead - 1 Hooded Merganser - 17 Ruddy Duck - 1 Wild Turkey - 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 16 Neotropic Cormorant - 12 (4 sitting on nests) Double-crested Cormorant - 75 Anhinga - 10 American Bittern - 6 Great-blue Heron - 6 Great Egret - 36 Snowy Egret - 3 Little-blue Heron - 61 Cattle Egret - 270 Green Heron - 1 Black Vulture - 67 Turkey Vulture – 16 Osprey - 1 Northern Harrier – 5 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Broad-winged Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Small falcon species - 1 Common Gallinule - 26 American Coot – 605 Peep species - 16 Mourning Dove - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Phoebe – 1 Eastern Kingbird - 1 (ties RS early date) White-eyed Vireo - 6 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - 2 American Crow – 14 Fish Crow - 6 Purple Martin - 2 Tree Swallow - 17 Cliff Swallow - 63 Barn Swallow - 4 Carolina Chickadee – 3 Tufted Titmouse - 3 Carolina Wren – 8 Sedge Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 4 Brown Thrasher - 2 American Pipit - 1 Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Northern Parula - 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 Pine Warbler - 1 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 7 Eastern Towhee - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 5 Song Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow – 6 White-throated Sparrow – 16 Northern Cardinal – 7 Red-winged Blackbird – 185 Eastern Meadowlark - 1 Common Grackle - 66 Brown-headed Cowbird - 5 American Goldfinch - 1 Herps: Stinkpot Eastern River Cooter Plain-bellied Watersnake Diamond-backed Watersnake Eastern Gray Treefrog Cajun Chorus Frog Blanchard's Cricket Frog Odonates: Fragile Forktail Common Green Darner Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Blue Corporal Variegated Meadowhawk Good birding! David Arbour De Queen, AR Check out the Red Slough Photo Gallery: [ https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma \| https://pbase.com/red_slough_wma ] Birders Guide to the Red Slough WMA: [ https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 \| https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ouachita/landmanagement/resourcemanagement/?cid=fseprd1043423 ] ############################ To unsubscribe from the ARBIRD-L list: write to: mailto:<ARBIRD-L-SIGNOFF-REQUEST...> or click the following link: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa-UARKEDU.exe?SUBED1=ARBIRD-L&A=1

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