4/17/2024 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, 10am-1PM. high tide-receding, 55F, partly cloudy. The center was swarming with visitors today and class visits. Beautiful views on the marsh and of the shorebirds. Our female osprey was on the nest all morning in incubation position. The male visited several times and they watched as a third osprey briefly circled overhead. About 100 Brant on the marsh and a flock flew overhead in V formation. The Fish crows have been gathering nesting material and building it in the large pine tree. On the marsh: (viewed from inside building)- 5 American Oystercatchers foraging on the mudflats, 2 Great Egrets, several Greater yellowlegs, 2 Red breasted mergansers, 5 American Black ducks, 6 Green winged teal flew in, 2 D.C. Cormorants diving, 2 Canada Geese and 2 Mute swans. On the grounds & feeders: The Fish crows, 2 robins, 2 Mourning doves, several Eastern Towhees, at least 2 Ruby crowned kinglets, about 10 House finches (one very vocal male), 1 Northern Mockingbird, 3 Juncos, several Common Grackles, White throated sparrows, House sparrows, 1 Blue Jay, 2 Northern Cardinals, 1 Downy woodpecker, Red winged blackbirds, and 1 Crow harassing a gull as I was driving in. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange