Date: 7/15/25 8:14 pm
From: <arbour...> <arbour...>
Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - July 15


It was partly cloudy, very warm, and windy on the bird survey today. 57 species were found. Nothing out of the ordinary except for a female Redhead which, like the Ring-neck Ducks we have now, is probably a wounded bird from duck season. Least Bitterns have been really active at the observation platform on Pintail Lake. Here is my list for today:





Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 5

Wood Duck - 12

Mallard - 1 male

Redhead - 1 female

Ring-necked Duck - 10

Pied-billed Grebe – 6

Neotropic Cormorant - 15

Anhinga - 89

Least Bittern - 4

Great-blue Heron - 7

Great Egret - 10

Snowy Egret - 14

Little-blue Heron - 30

Cattle Egret - 950

Green Heron - 8

Black-crowned Night Heron - 1

Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 4

White Ibis - 57

Black Vulture - 4

Turkey Vulture – 6

Mississippi Kite - 2

Red-shouldered Hawk - 1

Purple Gallinule - 87

Common Gallinule - 88

American Coot – 4

Mourning Dove - 9

Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 5

Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1

Eastern Phoebe - 3

Great-crested Flycatcher - 3

Eastern Kingbird - 1

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 2

White-eyed Vireo - 3

Bell's Vireo - 1

American Crow - 2

Fish Crow - 3

Purple Martin - 1

Tree Swallow - 3

Cliff Swallow - 7

Barn Swallow - 13

Tufted Titmouse - 2

Carolina Wren - 4

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1

Prairie Warbler - 1

Prothonotary Warbler - 4

Common Yellowthroat - 4

Eastern Towhee -1

Northern Cardinal – 10

Blue Grosbeak - 1

Indigo Bunting - 8

Painted Bunting - 6

Dickcissel - 3

Red-winged Blackbird – 12

Common Grackle - 3

Brown-headed Cowbird - 8

Orchard Oriole - 1

House Sparrow - 3







Odonates:







L ilypad Forktail

Royal River Cruiser

Halloween Pennant

Four-spotted Pennant

Eastern Pondhawk

Blue Dasher

Slaty Skimmer

Common Whitetail

"red" Saddlebags

Black Saddlebags







Herps:




American Alligator

Southern Painted Turtle

Red-eared Slider

Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad

Blanchard's Cricket Frog

Green Frog













Good birding!



David Arbour

De Queen, AR






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