Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, April 30 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Widespread new spring arrivals this week included Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Gray Catbirds, Great-Crested Flycatchers, House Wrens, and Yellow Warblers. Common and Roseate Terns are also now arriving at breeding colonies.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Parasitic Jaeger, a Common Murre, 42 Razorbills, 2 Iceland Gulls, 2 Manx Shearwaters, and 7 Broad-Winged Hawks.
Birds at the Beech Forest in Provincetown last week included a Blue Grosbeak, 4 Wood Ducks, a Spotted Sandpiper, a Wilson’s Snipe, 2 Virginia Rails, a White-Eyed Vireo, 12 Ruby-Crowned Kinglets, 2 Eastern Kingbirds, 3 Pine Siskins, 2 Rusty Blackbirds, and 100 Yellow-Rumped Warblers.
Nothing was reported for Truro, Wellfleet, or Eastham. We hope some of those Orioles were yours.
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].
