Date: 5/28/25 12:22 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
5/28, Milford- Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 9:30am-1PM Low tide rising, overcast, 60F. Very busy again at the coastal center with enthusiastic class visitors and many first time visitors. Our ospreys put on a nice show, as the male brought in a fish, and the female was feeding the 3 chicks (2 recently hatched). Our Purple Martin colony had many flying over the marsh, bringing in nesting materials and lots of vocalization. 3 Purple martins had orange leg bands on their left legs. I spent about 45 minutes on the LIS side, and by the lagoon. There was a very vocal Clapper Rail by the lagoon edge, with 4 Great Egrets in the lagoon. Dunlin, Red Knots, Ruddy Turnstones, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, Least Sandpipers all along the shoreline, along with RB gulls & Herring gulls and a Great Black backed gull. Several Piping Plovers with 2 on nests. A juvenile Bald Eagle flew over and was chased by 2 Oystercatchers. On the marsh side: In addition to our Osprey family, there were 4 other ospreys perched on logs/branches in the marsh, 4 Mute Swans, 2 American Black ducks, about 60 Brant & 8 DC Cormorants flew over. On the grounds & feeders: 8 House finches, House sparrows, 3 Song sparrows, 3 Tree swallows- 1 by a nest box, a Cowbird, 6 Common Grackles, 2 Catbirds, 1 Mockingbird, 6 Mourning Doves, very vocal Carolina Wrens and a House wren, several Robins, Starlings, 2 Cardinals and 1 Blue Jay. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange
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