Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tue
sday, August 13 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
An Atlantic Puffin and 3 Long-Tailed Jaegers were seen at Race Point in Provincetown over the weekend along with a Pacific Loon, a Black Tern, 315 Roseate Terns, 6 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 400 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 17 Cory’s Shearwaters, 75 Great Shearwaters, 6 Sooty Shearwaters, 52 Manx Shearwaters, 2 Whimbrels, 3 Glossy Ibis, and 2 Cliff Swallows.
An International Shorebird Survey Blitz of Nauset Marsh on the Aug. 6 tallied 3,000 Semipalmated Plovers, 4 Whimbrels, 4 Hudsonian Godwits, 825 Short-Billed Dowitchers, 3 “Henderson’s” Short-Billed Dowitchers, 274 Red Knots, 25 White-Rumped Sandpipers, 340 Least Sandpipers, 8 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2,700 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 6 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 7 Forster’s Terns, 400 Common Terns, 30 Roseate Terns, 11 Yellow-Crowned Night-Herons, 18 Snowy Egrets, 9 Great Egrets, 7 Great Blue Herons, and 12 Saltmarsh Sparrows.
Some early migrant warblers this week included 2 Black-Throated Green-Warblers that landed on a whale watch boat on Stellwagen Bank.
A Cliff Swallow and a Red-Necked Phalarope were sighted at Ballston Beach in Truro, and there was an American Bittern at High Head in North Truro.
There was a Common Nighthawk in Eastham.
Apparently, nobody saw anything in Wellfleet.
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].
