Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 15 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, 53 Green-Winged Teals, 545 Surf Scoters, 886 White-Winged Scoters, an American Golden-Plover, 12 White-Rumped Sandpipers, a Razorbill, 2 Pomarine Jaegers, 7 Parasitic Jaegers, 15 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 6 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, a Herring x Lesser Black-Backed Gull hybrid, 93 Cory’s Shearwaters, 22 Great Shearwaters, 41 Manx Shearwaters, and 45 American Pipits.
Reports from Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary included 4 Wood Ducks, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 60 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Clapper Rails, 2 Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers, a Philadelphia Vireo, a White-Eyed Vireo, a Winter Wren, a Swainson’s Thrush, a Lapland Longspur, a Purple Finch, and 2 Nelson’s Sparrows.
Lacking reports from Truro and Eastham, we can offer instead news from up Cape: a Vermilion Flycatcher, just the sixth state record, was seen on Oct. 8 at South Cape Beach in Mashpee. It has not been seen since.
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].
