Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Jan. 2 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Stellwagen Bank ship-based Christmas Bird Count was held on Dec. 27 and, despite heavy fog, surveyors tallied an Atlantic Puffin, 1,470 White-Winged Scoters, 5 Pomarine Jaegers, 17 Razorbills, 585 Common Murres, 110 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 7 Iceland Gulls, and 260 Northern Gannets.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Pomarine Jaeger, a Thick-Billed Murre, 9 Common Murres, 3 Dovekies, a Black Guillemot, 30 Iceland Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, and an American Pipit.
There was a Western Tanager in Truro this week (plus two others on the Cape, one in Sandwich, one in Dennis). Also in town was a Lesser Yellowlegs.
In Wellfleet, 100 lingering Tree Swallows were sighted. And one American Woodcock.
The Western Kingbird and Lark Sparrow continued at the Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham this week, along with one or two Eastern Phoebes.
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].
