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Date: 10/21/25 6:08 pm From: <arbour...> <arbour...> Subject: Red Slough Bird Survey - Oct. 21
It was mostly overcast & mild, turning clear, warm, and windy on the bird survey today. 57 species were found. Waterfowl numbers and variety have greatly increased since last week. Still a few lingering summer birds around. Here is my list for today: Black-bellied Whistling Ducks - 508 (new high count.) Wood Duck - 91 Gadwall - 71 American Wigeon - 15 Mallard - 1 Blue-winged Teal - 25 Northern Shoveler - 28 Northern Pintail - 7 Green-winged Teal - 7 Ring-necked Duck - 85 Pied-billed Grebe – 9 Neotropic Cormorant - 1 Anhinga - 1 Great-blue Heron - 9 Great Egret - 3 Little-blue Heron - 1 Cattle Egret - 2 Plegadis species - 1 Black Vulture - 15 Turkey Vulture – 40 Bald Eagle - 1 imm. Northern Harrier - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Merlin - 1 Virginia Rail - 1 Purple Gallinule - 3 imm. Common Gallinule - 27 American Coot – 362 Killdeer - 39 Yellowlegs species - 3 Wilson's Snipe - 4 Rock Pigeon - 4 Belted Kingfisher - 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 12 Eastern Phoebe - 8 American Crow - 24 Fish Crow - 1 Tree Swallow - 1 Barn Swallow - 7 Carolina Chickadee - 1 Tufted Titmouse - 1 Carolina Wren - 3 Marsh Wren - 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Gray Catbird - 2 Brown Thrasher - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 3 Eastern Towhee - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 19 White-throated Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal – 3 Red-winged Blackbird - 40 Meadowlark species - 2 Common Grackle - 24 Odonates: Common Green Darner Blue Dasher Striped Saddlebags Herps: Red-eared Slider Timber Rattlesnake 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 ] ############################ 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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