Date: 5/20/26 1:10 pm From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
5/20 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM. sunny, 85F, low tide rising. Very busy at the center today with class visitors and our human visitors. We had a visitor from India the other day and today visitors from Paris. Our Purple Martin colony is busy with many birds carrying in nesting materials. On the marsh: 3 Ospreys, (our male on his perch & flying around, female on the nest) and another osprey from a local nest, 2 Canada Geese, about 87 Brant, 2 mallards, 2 Mute Swans, 1 Semipalmated Plover on the mudflat, 6 D.C. Cormorants, 1 Yellow crowned night heron, 4 Great Egrets, a flock of Willets and a flock of Least Sandpipers flew over. On the grounds & feeders: 4 Mourning doves, 3 Song sparrows, several grackles, 4 House finches, 1 Magnolia warbler and 1 Blackpoll warbler, Blue jays, Robins, House sparrows, Cardinals, many Red winged blackbirds 2 Cedar waxwings, Catbirds and 1 Mockingbird. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange
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