Date: 10/1/25 11:20 am From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
10/1 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 9:30am-1PM. mid-tide receding, 60-65F, sunny. Several class visits this morning with very enthusiastic students, plus other visitors. On the marsh: As the tide receded, a mixed flock of gulls and shorebirds were foraging in the marsh -including 5 Laughing gulls, Ring billed & herring gulls, 5 Greater yellow legs, 10 D.C. Cormorants, 7 Black bellied plovers, 4 American Oystercatchers, 3 juvenile Yellow crowned night herons, 2 Snowy Egrets, 7 Great Egrets & 5 American Black ducks. 1 Northern harrier flew over and 1 Buteo ( I think a Broad winged hawk). On the grounds & feeders: 2 Eastern Towhees (male & female), 3 Yellow rumped warblers, 1 Yellow bellied sapsucker, 2 Mourning doves, 1 White throated sparrow, 11 House sparrows, 2 Carolina wrens, 8 Blue Jays, 1 White breasted nuthatch, 1 Catbird, 2 Mockingbirds, 1 Golden crowned kinglet, 1 Eastern Phoebe, 2 Cardinals & 2 Red bellied woodpeckers. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange
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