Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, May 27 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
A spring nor’easter brought some nice seabirds within view of bayside beaches late last week, with sightings at Race Point in Provincetown including 64 Red Phalaropes, 28 Red-Necked Phalaropes, 14 Parasitic Jaegers, 4 Pomarine Jaegers, 5 Common Murres, a Little Gull, 7 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 20 Bonaparte’s Gulls, a Black Tern, 325 Arctic Terns, 1,800 Common Terns, 7 Roseate Terns, a Pacific Loon, 9 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 84 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 54 Sooty Shearwaters, 17 Manx Shearwaters, and 1,600 Northern Gannets. Also, four Caspian Terns passed the point on May 26.
A Hooded Warbler turned up in a yard in Provincetown.
There was a single Common Nighthawk in Truro.
A Chuck-Will’s-Widow was seen in Eastham. Maybe the same one as last week. Who knows?
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].
