Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 29 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Black Guillemot, a Black Scoter, 22 Piping Plovers, 3 Whimbrels, 1,000 Common Terns, 65 Roseate Terns, 80 Cory’s Shearwaters, 9 Great Shearwaters, and 11 Manx Shearwaters.
Truro appears to be bereft of birdwatchers.
Not so in Wellfleet, where birds at the Audubon Sanctuary this week included an American Golden-Plover, a Clapper Rail, 20 Whimbrels, a Hudsonian Godwit, 5 Forster’s Terns, 5 Cory’s Shearwaters, a Black-Crowned Night-Heron, a Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron and 4 Green Herons.
Eastham is fixated on that one Chuck-Will’s-Widow.
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].
