Date: 11/13/24 3:19 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
11/13-Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, 10am-12:45PM, sunny, high tide-receding, 42F. A brisk, sunny day at the Coastal Center. No visitors this morning, but our 2 new residents-Truffles & Tolstoy (snakes) were getting lots of attention from Maggie & Ava. On the marsh: 17 American Black ducks, 1 male Bufflehead, feeding and swimming and hanging out with the Black ducks, 8 Mute swans, 3 flyover D.C. Cormorants, 1 Northern harrier coasted over. As the tide was receding, 37 American Wigeons and 4 Gadwalls kept 1 Northern Pintail company, and several Black bellied plovers were on a mudflat. On the grounds & feeders: 1 Red bellied woodpecker, 2 Tufted titmice, 3 Mourning doves, 10 House Finches, 1 White breasted nuthatch working a tree, 3 Chickadees, 2 White throated sparrows and numerous House sparrows in the brush piles and bird baths. Bev Propen, Orange
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