6/18 Milford, Audubon Coastal Center- 9:25am- 11:15am. low tide, overcast, 68-70F. The Coastal Center building is closed to the public during the week for the summer because we have camp in session. Grounds are open. Our Purple martin colony continues to be active, observing one of our PM on gourd #21 with an orange leg band on left leg. Our ospreys chicks are getting quite big, heads popping over the nest. Parent was feeding the chicks a fish. On the marsh: 1 Clapper rail, 3 Canada geese, D.C. Cormorants, willets flew over & 2 Great Egrets. On the grounds: 2 Mockingbirds, 5 Mourning doves, singing Carolina wren, Red winged Blackbirds, about 8 House finches, House sparrows, Common Grackles, 4 Cardinals and 1 Tree swallow in a nest box. A walk along LIS shoreline-many adult Piping plovers with 6 recently fledged chicks, 10 American Oystercatchers - two of which were at their nest further out, 1 Black bellied plover, 1 Snowy Egret foraging in the lagoon, several Least terns flying with fish in their beaks. Full report on Ebird. Bev Propen, Orange