Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 22 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
A Gray Kingbird was seen at Fort Hill and later at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham this week, representing just the second record for Cape Cod. A Painted Bunting was reported from Brewster Sand and Gravel, which in spite of its name, is also in Eastham.
In Wellfleet, a likely Western Kingbird, or perhaps another type of kingbird from the western U.S., was reported from Chequessett Neck Road on Tuesday.
Two Snow Geese were reported flying over Truro.
Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Red-Necked Phalarope, 980 White-Winged Scoters, 250 Black Scoters, a Red-Necked Grebe, 2 White-Rumped Sandpipers, 9 Parasitic Jaegers, 2 Pomarine Jaegers, 140 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 125 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 9 Forster’s Terns, 500 Laughing Gulls, 240 Common Terns, 17 Red-Throated Loons, 250 Cory’s Shearwaters, 200 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, 2 Manx Shearwaters, 400 Northern Gannets, and 40 American Pipits.
Elsewhere in Provincetown were a Warbling Vireo and a Piping Plover.
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].
