Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 8 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Two Red Phalaropes were seen on Stellwagen Bank.
A Brown Booby was seen from Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings included a Royal Tern, 9 Parasitic Jaegers, a Black-Legged Kittiwake, a Black Tern, 115 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 60 Cory’s Shearwaters, 850 Great Shearwaters, 25 Sooty Shearwaters, 115 Manx Shearwaters, a Bald Eagle, a Merlin, and a Common Raven.
An out-of-season Yellow-Throated Warbler and an American Bittern were at High Head in North Truro.
There were 2 American Bitterns in Eastham.
An out-of-town sighting makes the list this week because it’s a rare one: A Western Tanager is visiting a private feeder in East Orleans, representing the first-ever summer record of this species in Massachusetts and indeed in most of the Northeast.
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].
