Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 29 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Brant, 2 Whimbrels, a Long-Tailed Jaeger, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Black Terns, 200 Roseate Terns, 800 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 30 Great Shearwaters, 38 Sooty Shearwaters, 15 Manx Shearwaters, a Little Blue Heron, 3 American Kestrels, and a Cliff Swallow.
There was a Blackburnian Warbler in Truro.
Birds reported from Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary this week included 7 Green-Winged Teals, 9 Whimbrels, 25 Forster’s Terns, 2 Yellow-Crowned Night-Herons, an Olive-Sided Flycatcher, a Cliff Swallow, and a Canada Warbler.
A Bay-Breasted Warbler was seen in 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].
