10/23 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, 10am-12PM. low tide, rising, sunny, 65F. The center was busy with class visits today, as well as individual visitors. The marsh was beautiful as the autumn colors take hold on the marsh grasses. On the marsh: 5 Mute swans, 1 Great Egret, 1 Snowy Egret, 2 American Oystercatchers, 16 Black bellied plovers, 5 American Black Ducks, 7 Greater yellowlegs, 6 D.C. Cormorants further out, 25 Canada Geese, Laughing gulls and Herring & Ring billed gulls, and 6 Crows sitting on top of the osprey platform. On the grounds and feeders: 1 Mockingbird, 1 Tufted titmouse, House finches, House sparrows, 2 White breasted Nuthatches, 2 Chickadees, 1 loud Carolina Wren, 2 Yellow rumped warblers, and 2 Eastern Towhees foraging under the cedars. Bev Propen, Orange