Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the seven days preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 21 included the following, compiled at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, based on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird website and other sources:
The Arctic subspecies of black guillemot continued at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown with at least five other black guillemots, three razorbills, five dovekies, and a purple sandpiper.
Sightings at Race Point included a Pacific loon, two short-eared owls, a great horned owl sitting out in the dunes, 1,400 razorbills, 39 dovekies, 57 common murres, a thick-billed murre, three black guillemots, 18 Iceland gulls, a Northern shrike, a Lapland longspur, 120 snow buntings, and 60 horned larks.
American bitterns were sighted this week in Eastham and North Truro.
