Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 22, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
In Provincetown, sightings at Race Point included a Pacific Loon, a continuing Sabine’s Gull, a Little Gull, 4 Caspian Terns, 2 Red Phalaropes, 50 Red-necked Phalaropes, 3 American Golden-Plovers, a Razorbill, 2 Long-tailed Jaegers, 10 Parasitic Jaegers, 1,000 Common Terns, 2 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 57 Northern Fulmars, 4 species of shearwaters, including 287 Manx Shearwaters and 450 Great Shearwaters, and 24 American Pipits.
There was a Lark Sparrow at Provincetown Airport.
Birdwatchers from the rest of our Outer Cape towns apparently stayed home this week due to the wind.
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 e-mail to [email protected].
