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    This Week’s Bird Sightings

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    Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Dec. 10 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

    The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week, and the Western Tanager reappeared along Race Point Road. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Laughing Gull, a hybrid American Herring x Lesser Black-Backed Gull, 10 Iceland Gulls, and a Purple Sandpiper. Elsewhere in town, the mystery hummingbird continued, and someone saw a Red Crossbill.

    The Audubon’s Yellow-Rumped Warbler is one of two different-looking forms of North America’s main winter warbler. (The other is the eastern ‘Myrtle’ Warbler). While most of its relatives migrate to the tropics in fall, the Yellow-Rumped stays around this far north because it is able to live on berries to get by, according to the Cornell Bird Lab. But “the Audubon’s is a very rare stray in the East.” (Photo by Mick Thompson, Eastside Audubon)

    A Bohemian Waxwing and 3 Evening Grosbeaks were seen in Truro, and in North Truro, a White-Winged Crossbill.

    There was an Audubon’s Yellow-Rumped Warbler 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].

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    This Week’s Bird Sightings

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    Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 8 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

    Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Northern Bobwhite, a Common Murre, 3 Little Gulls, 2 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, an Arctic Tern, 4 Short-Billed Dowitchers, and 5 Manx Shearwaters.

    The Olive-Sided Flycatcher has a white stripe in front that people say make it look like it’s wearing a vest. (Photo Jeremiah Trimble/Macauley Library)

    An Olive-Sided Flycatcher was reported from North Truro.

    Nobody in Wellfleet or Eastham dropped a dime on a rare bird.

    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].

    Pirates and Pollinators

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    Fran Raleigh teaches a Zoom course on “Birds, Bees, Butterflies, and Pollinators” as part of Coastal Connections on Tuesday, March 23rd, at 1 p.m. Call the Orleans Senior Center at 508-255-6333 to register. There is also a course on “Maritime Ghosts and Seafaring Spirits,” with Roxie Zwicker, on Wednesday, March 24th, at 1 p.m. To register, call the Sandwich Council on Aging at 508-888-4737.

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    This Week’s Bird Sightings

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    Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 24, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

    The Arctic subspecies of Black Guillemot continued at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown as recently as the 19th.

    Also in Provincetown, there were many sightings at Race Point, including 400 Red-breasted Mergansers, 3 Piping Plovers, 110 Sanderlings, 25 Dunlins, 4 Common Murres, 275 Razorbills, 7 Iceland Gulls, 385 Red-throated Loons, a Short-eared Owl, and a Common Raven.

    The Clay-colored Sparrow was still at Evergreen Cemetery in Eastham, along with 13 Chipping Sparrows.

    Piping plovers
    Piping Plovers have appeared in Provincetown. (Photo Kaiti Titherington/USFWS)

     

    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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    This Week’s Bird Sightings

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    Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, March 17, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

    Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers were seen in Eastham this week.

    Peregrine falcon
    In Provincetown, a peregrine. (Photo NPS/Andrew Kuhn)

    The Arctic subspecies of Black Guillemot continues at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown, along with the typical subspecies of Black Guillemot and a Peregrine Falcon.

    Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 20 Dovekies, 600 Razorbills, and 25 Iceland Gulls this week.

    The season’s first Piping Plovers and Ospreys are arriving on cue, just off the outermost part of the Cape, with plover sightings at Nauset Beach in Orleans, and Osprey sightings also in Orleans.

    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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