Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 7 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Three Pacific Loons were at Race Point in Provincetown this week, along with 2 Northern Pintails, 124 Dovekies, 2,374 Razorbills, 86 Common Murres, a Thick-Billed Murres, 39 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 23 Iceland Gulls, 300 Northern Gannets, and 50 Snow Buntings.
The Spotted Towhee and a lingering Prairie Warbler continued at the Provincetown Airport, and the Black-Chinned Hummingbird and Western Tanager were elsewhere in Provincetown. A very late Indigo Bunting was at the same house that’s hosting the hummingbird. And 3 Harlequin Ducks and a Black Guillemot were seen in Provincetown Harbor.
Highlights from the Truro Christmas Bird Count on Dec. 31 included a Bohemian Waxwing, a Clay-Colored Sparrow, a Dovekie, 2 Soras, and up to 2 Pacific Loons in Truro, and 2 Clapper Rails, 2 Barrow’s Goldeneyes, a Black Guillemot, and 99 Ruddy Turnstones in Wellfleet.
Outside of that Christmas Count there was a Clapper Rail in Wellfleet and an American Woodcock in North Truro.
Not a peep out of the people of Eastham.
If you have questions about these sightings or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send an email to [email protected].
