Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 18 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
A Tropical Kingbird was found near Race Point on Saturday, representing only the second Cape and Islands record and apparent 5th state record.
Other sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Common Murre, 6 Little Gulls, 500 Bonaparte’s Gulls, an Iceland Gull, a Glaucous Gull, a Lesser Black-Backed Gull, and a Caspian Tern.
Elsewhere in Provincetown: a Red-Headed Woodpecker and a Cerulean Warbler at Foss Woods, and a Summer Tanager, a Prothonotary Warbler, a Yellow-Throated Warbler, a Louisiana Waterthrush, and 3 Evening Grosbeaks at Beech Forest.
There was a Kentucky Warbler at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary.
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].
