I estimate that over 100 people per day are coming. Like the snowy owls, we should give this bird the space it needs to find food. If there is a large group of people, it would be better to stay near the parking area. When groups of people stay just past the info sign in the grass by the river they have gotten excellent views of the bird by the ledge.

Ksepka estimated the length of the feathers based on the relationship between bone lengths and feather lengths in living birds, and used computer models to infer that this species was an efficient glider. Bruce Museum members are free, non-members are $15. Reservations are requested: call 203-869-0376 or email info@brucemuseum.org. Cynthia S.

​5/6 Milford, 10am-1PM, low tide, rising 57F At the Purple Martin condo, at least 20 Purple martins (conservative estimate) flying about, and occupying gourds. Females were in the gourds and males sitting on top or on the perches.

If I could estimate how many individuals were present, I would say around 30, a couple of which were flying over the house in small flocks. Most of them were high up in the trees, and left after around five minutes of gleaning.

Grackles will also move with them (in the hundreds of thousands, and at least once recently, an estimated 3 million!).  They look like miles of smoke on the eastern horizon, and it's a spectacle well worth the cold temperatures and the early hour.  I hope you don't get these kinds of numbers at your feeder, that might be inconvenient!

5/25/16 -- East Rock Park, New Haven/Hamden -- an estimated 18 species of warbler were observed today.

Please be sure to estimate your time spent in the field in your reports to help track level of effort. Thanks so much! Scott -- Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History 311 Curtis Street Jamestown, NY 14701 skruitbosch@rtpi.org rtpi.org Celebrating Wild America

Please be sure to estimate your time spent in the field in your reports to help track level of effort. Thanks so much! -- Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History 311 Curtis Street Jamestown, NY 14701-9620 skruitbosch@rtpi.org www.rtpi.org Celebrating Wild America

Milford Point yesterday held at least 10 species of shorebirds, including an estimated 3600 adult Semipalmated Sandpipers (no Stints among them). There was also about 200 Common Terns, over 100 Least Terns (some nesting, so please avoid getting too close), and a summering Common Loon.

On the marsh: an estimate of 300 Brant spread out, 5 D.C. Cormorants, 4 Mute swans, 5 Great Egrets, and a few Least terns flying over.