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This Week’s Bird Sightings

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“The conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote that the woodcock’s mesmerizing sky dances were ‘a refutation of the theory that the utility of a game bird is to serve as a target, or to pose gracefully on a slice of toast,’ ” according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Those “sky dances” are about the search for a mate, in which the male woodcock makes what the folks at Cornell say is “a buzzy peent call, given from the ground,” interspersed with “spiraling display flights,” that include musical chirping and a twittering wing noise. (Photo by Louis Brodeur, Macaulay Library/Cornell)

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 8 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

American Woodcocks have been displaying and were observed at High Head in Truro and at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, as well as at points up Cape.

Snowy Owl sightings this week included two at North Beach in Orleans and one at First Encounter Beach in Eastham.

There was a Peregrine Falcon at MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown.

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].

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