Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Sept. 24 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
An unconfirmed Eurasian Kestrel was described from the dunes of Provincetown on Monday.
Storm-driven and other nice birds reported from Race Point in Provincetown this week included an Atlantic Puffin, a Little Gull, a Sabine’s Gull, a Pacific Loon, a Baird’s Sandpiper, a Red Phalarope, 135 Red-Necked Phalaropes, a Long-Tailed Jaeger, 102 Parasitic Jaegers, 6 Pomarine Jaegers, a South Polar Skua, 36 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 790 Laughing Gulls, 13 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 2,200 Common Terns, 100 Roseate Terns, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, 270 Cory’s Shearwaters, 137 Great Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters, 119 Manx Shearwaters, 52 Horned Larks, and 3,000 Tree Swallows.
4 Clapper Rails and a Little Blue Heron were seen at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary.
A Brown Pelican continued in various places this week including Great Island and Indian Neck in Wellfleet and First Encounter and the Salt Pond 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].
