Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 25 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
News from Barnstable deserves a spot in our Outer Cape chronicle this week: A Mountain Plover was discovered at Craigville Beach there last week. This represents just the 6th-ever East Coast record, and the first Massachusetts record since 1916 for this scarce shorebird of dry Western plains.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 38 Piping Plovers, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, 3 Parasitic Jaegers, a Black-Legged Kittiwake, 1,050 Common Terns, 5 Cory’s Shearwaters, 53 Great Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters, and a Bald Eagle.
No word from Truro, Wellfleet, or Eastham.
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].
