2/21/2024 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM high
tide receding, 38F, overcast.
Lots of visitors today- families enjoying Franklin the turtle.
On the marsh: (viewed from windows inside bldg. with bins & scopes) 115
Canada geese as the tide was receding, 37 American Black ducks, 4 Gadwalls,
6 Buffleheads actively diving, 2 American Wigeons, 9 Ring billed gulls, 1
Great black backed gull, 3 Mute swans, 2 Common loons (a bit farther
out), 7 Green winged teal, 4 Red breasted mergansers-skimming surface of
the water with their bills and one of them caught something (1 male, 3
Female).
On grounds & feeders: 8 Mourning doves, 6 House finches (1 with eye
disease, 1 orange coloration), 3 White throated sparrows, 3 Song sparrows,
12 House sparrows, 4 Cardinals (2M, 2 F).
On the way home, I stopped at Crosby Pond & Old Tavern Rd park- with no
sign of the Greater white fronted goose.
Bev Propen, Orange
2/21/2024 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center. 10am-1PM high
tide receding, 38F, overcast.
Lots of visitors today- families enjoying Franklin the turtle.
On the marsh: (viewed from windows inside bldg. with bins & scopes) 115
Canada geese as the tide was receding, 37 American Black ducks, 4 Gadwalls,
6 Buffleheads actively diving, 2 American Wigeons, 9 Ring billed gulls, 1
Great black backed gull, 3 Mute swans, 2 Common loons (a bit farther
out), 7 Green winged teal, 4 Red breasted mergansers-skimming surface of
the water with their bills and one of them caught something (1 male, 3
Female).
On grounds & feeders: 8 Mourning doves, 6 House finches (1 with eye
disease, 1 orange coloration), 3 White throated sparrows, 3 Song sparrows,
12 House sparrows, 4 Cardinals (2M, 2 F).
On the way home, I stopped at Crosby Pond & Old Tavern Rd park- with no
sign of the Greater white fronted goose.
Bev Propen, Orange
