4/17 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, 10 am-1PM, high tide receding, 55 F, sunny. Very busy at the center today because school is out for the week. At 10 am the female osprey was on the nest. She was there all morning. At 11:25am, she began calling and then the male returned with a fish. He chowed down on the fish for over an hour on the perch, and by 12:40pm he was on the nest with her and whatever was left of the fish. They chased off a third osprey. On the marsh: conservative estimate of 200 Brant on the marsh, continuing all morning, 6 American Black ducks, 12 Mute swans, 4 Red Breasted Mergansers, 4 Cormorants flew over. On the grounds & feeders: 6 Tree swallows (one nest box is battling House sparrow intruders), 2 Purple Martins, 4 House finches, (one male with the orange coloration), 2 American Goldfinches, 9 Common Grackles (1 was collecting dried grasses), 6 Mourning Doves, 1 singing Carolina Wren, 1 Song sparrow, 3 American Crows, 2 Northern Cardinals. Bev Propen, Orange