Date: 5/1/24 8:25 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - May 1st
It was overcast and mild, with some light rain, turning partly cloudy, warm, and a bit windy on the bird survey today. 81 species were found. Except for a few shorebirds, terns, and gulls there really wasn't much for passing through migrants around today. Especially noticeable was the lack of migrant warblers. Hopefully this will change soon. Normally my bird survey during the first week of May would be over 100 species. Lots of birds building and sitting on nests in the heronry now. Here is my list for today:
Black-bellied Whistling Duck - 19
Canada Geese – 2
Wood Duck - 16
Blue-winged Teal - 20
Northern Shoveler - 1
Ring-necked Duck - 4 males
Hooded Merganser - 3 females
Wild Turkey - 1
Pied-billed Grebe – 14
Neotropic Cormorant - 28 (9 active nests)
Anhinga - 112 (Many sitting on nests.)
Least Bittern - 4
Great-blue Heron - 6
Great Egret - 34
Snowy Egret - 15
Little-blue Heron - 114
Cattle Egret - 5500
Green Heron - 15
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3
White Ibis - 136 (one standing in a nest moving sticks around.)
