I joined Dennis Braddy today to take a census of birds in the south central region of Little Rock. Our area ranged from Gillam Park in the east, Asher Avenue to the north, Mablevale Pike in the west and Arch Street Pike to the south. It was cloudy and gusty all day with intermittent rain and finally a downpour at 3:15. The highlights of the day were a Glaucous Gull at the BFI Landfill and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Fourche Bottoms both identified first by Dennis.
Species seen or heard:
• Snow Goose
• Canada Goose
• Wood Duck
• Gadwall
• Mallard
• Northern Shoveler
• Green-winged Teal
• Ring-necked Duck
• Lesser Scaup
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Great Blue Heron
• Black Vulture
• Turkey Vulture
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Red-Shouldered Hawk
• American Kestrel
• Killdeer
• Ring-billed Gull
• Rock Pigeon
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Mourning Dove
• Great Horned Owl
• Red-bellied Woodpecker
• Downy Woodpecker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Eastern Phoebe
• Blue Jay
• American Crow
• Carolina Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• Carolina Wren
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Eastern Bluebird
• American Robin
• Northern Mockingbird
• Brown Thrasher
• European Starling
• Cedar Waxwing
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Pine Warbler
• Eastern Towhee
• Chipping Sparrow
• Field Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• Fox Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• White-throated Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Northern Cardinal
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Eastern Meadowlark
• Rusty Blackbird
• American Goldfinch
• Glaucous Gull
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
