Date: 8/6/25 8:31 am From: Beverly Propen via CTBirds <ctbirds...> Subject: [CT Birds] Coastal Center
7/6 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 9:15-10:20am.. mid-tide, overcast, breezy 77F. A brief visit this morning. camp is still in session, so grounds are busy with campers and visitors. On the marsh: 5 Yellow crowned night herons ( 1 adult, 4 juveniles)-then they flew over to the lagoon; 4 osprey-(3 on nest and one flew in with a fish) 1 Clapper rail, 2 Canada Geese, about 17 Purple martins hawking insects (and other Purple martins in the trees). A short walk along the LIS shoreline- 2 Song sparrows, about 12 Ruddy turnstones foraging on shoreline, 2 Sanderlings, many Semipalmated sandpipers (and more kept flying in), 4 Piping plovers, 22 Housefinches foraging in the grasses on the beach, 5 Least Terns diving for fish. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange
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