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Date: 5/13/25 6:29 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - May 13
Lou Truex (Lawton, OK) and I surveyed birds today at Red Slough and found 77 species. The weather started off clear, calm, and mild but by noon it had turned windy and warm. We spent most of the survey chasing warblers and other migrant Passerines. We only spent the last hour in the reservoirs counting water birds which is why numbers on them are much lower than normal. We hit a good movement of migrant warblers early this morning with a lot of them getting by us unidentified. But we did get 16 warbler species counting local breeders. Here is our list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 10 Wood Duck - 6 Pied-billed Grebe – 4 Neotropic Cormorant - 9 Anhinga - 64 Least Bittern - 1 Great-blue Heron - 1 Great Egret - 15 Snowy Egret - 4 Little-blue Heron - 13 Cattle Egret - 207 Green Heron - 6 White Ibis - 100 Black Vulture - 4 Turkey Vulture – 10 Mississippi Kite - 15 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 Purple Gallinule - 24 Common Gallinule - 22 American Coot – 2 Black Tern - 3 Mourning Dove - 7 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 6 Acadian Flycatcher - 1 Least Flycatcher - 4 Eastern Phoebe - 1 Great-crested Flycatcher - 2 Eastern Kingbird - 24 White-eyed Vireo - 6 Bell's Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 4 Fish Crow - 4 Purple Martin - 2 Tree Swallow - 9 Cliff Swallow - 1 Barn Swallow - 4 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 3 Carolina Wren - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Gray Catbird - 6 Northern Mockingbird - 1 Cedar Waxwing - 8 Tennessee Warbler - 3 Nashville Warbler - 2 Northern Parula - 1 Yellow Warbler - 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 2 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Black-throated Green Warbler - 2 Blackburnian Warbler - 2 Pine Warbler - 1 Prairie Warbler - 2 Black-and-white Warbler - 2 American Redstart - 3 Prothonotary Warbler - 6 Common Yellowthroat - 6 Hooded Warbler - 2 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Yellow-breasted Chat - 3 Summer Tanager - 2 Eastern Towhee - 1 Northern Cardinal – 7 Blue Grosbeak - 2 Indigo Bunting - 9 Painted Bunting - 9 Dickcissel - 4 Red-winged Blackbird – 13 Common Grackle - 4 Brown-headed Cowbird - 15 Orchard Oriole - 3 Baltimore Oriole - 2 Odonates: Fragile Forkail Blue-fronted Dancer Common Green Darner Swamp Darner Eastern Pondhawk Blue Dasher Great-blue Skimmer Black Saddlebags Herps: American Alligator Red-eared Slider Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad Green Treefrog Bullfrog 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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