8/19 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 9:40am-1PM. sunny, low tide rising, 82F. We are open to the public again, since summer camp is over. The center was packed with visitors-some local, some from Ohio, Virginia. We have a new resident- Alice the Bearded dragon which was given to us. Viewed from inside the building looking over the marsh: 3 juvenile Yellow crowned night herons, 1 Great blue heron, Snowy Egrets, Great egrets, 9 mallards, 2 American black ducks, 1 D.C. Cormorant, a Ring billed gull with a crab in its bill getting chased by numerous other gulls, our Osprey family, and a flock of about 12 Black bellied plovers and about 20 Semipalmated Plovers flew in around 12:55pm. On the grounds & feeders: 5 Mourning doves at the water fountain, a Catbird, Cardinals, 2 Robins, 1 Blue jay, 3 House finches, an American Goldfinch and 1 Ruby throated hummingbird. Bev Propen, Orange