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This Week’s Bird Sightings

By The Independent Jun 8, 2022

Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, June 7 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Teals inhabit shallow ponds and wetlands across much of North America. They migrate long distances, including to South America for the winter, therefore they leave their breeding grounds early. They’re among the last to return for warm weather. (Photo by Frank Schulenburg/Creative Commons)

2 Blue-Winged Teals were seen in the Beech Forest in Provincetown.

A Sandhill Crane visited Eldredge Field in Orleans this week. And because sometimes we adopt Orleans as our own, especially when nobody saw any birds in Truro, Wellfleet, or Eastham, let’s count this one.

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].