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This Week’s Bird Sightings

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Highlights from bird sightings on the Outer Cape over a little less than the usual one-week period. The Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary tally for us ended a day early because of the Independent’s Thanksgiving issue deadline on Monday, Nov. 25.

Large flocks of Bohemian Waxwings wander the northwest in winter in search of berries. They summer in western Canada and Alaska. “Sometimes they stray as far east as New England, but in most areas their numbers are quite variable from year to year,” according to the Audubon Field Guide. The guide also says that the name Bohemian refers to these birds’ “unconventional and seemingly carefree lifestyle.” (Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS)

A late Sooty Shearwater and a Pacific Loon were at Race Point in Provincetown this week. A Spotted Towhee, Western Tanager, Pine Grosbeak, and up to three Evening Grosbeaks all continued at various points along Race Point Road. There was a Bohemian Waxwing reported from the Beech Forest on Nov. 21. And elsewhere in town, a late Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher was spotted.

An Atlantic Puffin passed First Encounter Beach in Eastham on Nov. 23, and somebody saw it.

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].

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