Date: 6/25/25 3:09 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
6/25 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center 9:30am-11AM. sunny, hot, low tide. Camp is in session, so the building is busy with camper activities. Our Purple Martin colony is flourishing- 2 gourds have chicks and many gourds have eggs. Osprey chicks are growing. Several other ospreys in area flying around with fish in their talons. On the Marsh: 6 Canada Geese, 1 Great Egret, 1 mallard. On the grounds: Robins, Cardinals, 1 Mockingbird that thinks it's a cardinal and blue jay, 1 Catbird, several Common Grackles, House finches and birds bathing in the fountain. A Walk on the sandbars along LIS side- Several birders out. Many Piping plovers scurrying around with 2 sitting on nests, 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Plover, many Least Terns flying over carrying fish, about 8 American Oystercatchers sitting on rocks with 2 pairs on occupied nests, 4 D.C. Cormorants drying off and sunning, and 3 Common Loons (possible family unit) diving and feeding in Long Island Sound. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange
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