Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, July 8 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
A Brown Booby passed Race Point in Provincetown on Saturday. Other sightings at Race Point included a surprise Atlantic Puffin flyby, a Little Gull, a Black Tern, a Glaucous Gull, 5 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, 24 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 58 Cory’s Shearwaters, 2 Great Shearwaters, 4 Sooty Shearwaters, and 9 Manx Shearwaters. Elsewhere in Provincetown, someone saw a Black Vulture.

A Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, a Cory’s Shearwater, and 2 Great Shearwaters were at Great Island in Wellfleet, and at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary birders reported a Clapper Rail, 4 Whimbrels, 5 Short-Billed Dowitchers, and 2 Orchard Orioles.
There was at least one continuing Chuck-Will’s-Widow in Eastham. We don’t know what this means for the two who seemed to have worked things out.
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].