Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Aug. 26 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
A Sabine’s Gull, a Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, and a Pacific Loon were seen at Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings included 4 Red-Necked Phalaropes, a Long-Tailed Jaeger, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, a Pomarine Jaeger, 3,500 Laughing Gulls, 3 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 3 Forster’s Terns, 5,000 Common Terns, 2,200 Roseate Terns, 45 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 2,750 Cory’s Shearwaters, 1,650 Great Shearwaters, 70 Sooty Shearwaters, and 45 Manx Shearwaters.
At High Head in Truro sightings of some early fall migrant songbirds included 2 Warbling Vireos, a Blue-Winged Warbler, 3 American Redstarts, 7 Prairie Warblers, and a Canada Warbler, plus 2,000 Tree Swallows.
There was a single Little Blue Heron in Wellfleet.
A Worm-Eating Warbler was seen 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 e-mail to [email protected].
