5/3 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, 9:45am-noon. high tide, 57F, cloudy. Our Purple Martin colony has a few residents (aside from the sparrows and starlings). I saw 4 this morning at the gourds and flying around the marsh . Our ospreys are incubating eggs-female was on the nest all morning; male osprey was preening on his perch and flying around the marsh. At one point, the male chased a few Brant which were swimming right under the nest platform. At the feeders in front of the building was an Eastern Towhee and a Brown Thrasher (not a common visitor). House sparrows were taking sand baths. 4 Cardinals , several Red Winged blackbirds, 6 Mourning doves, Common Grackles, 1 Fish crow, a pair of House finches and Song sparrows. On the marsh: a pair of mallards, 1 Black duck, conservative estimate of 100 Brant, 12 Mute swans, 3 D.C. Cormorants and 12 Mute swans. One Snowy egret flew over. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange