Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 22 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 14 Piping Plovers, a Black Guillemot, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 2 Black Terns, 500 Roseate Terns, 1,900 Common Terns, an Arctic Tern, 40 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 300 Cory’s Shearwaters, 45 Great Shearwaters, 11 Sooty Shearwaters, and 22 Manx Shearwaters.
Some folks in a boat off Pamet Harbor in Truro were lucky enough to see two Atlantic Puffins last week.
Saltmarsh bird surveys at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary last week tallied 2 Clapper Rails, 14 Whimbrels, 70 Short-Billed Dowitchers, 52 Willets, and 16 Saltmarsh Sparrows. There was also a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak at the sanctuary.
Yes, he’s there. That Chuck-Will’s-Widow in 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].
