Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 27, included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Sabine’s Gull, 2 Black-headed Gulls, a Little Gull, 4 Harlequin Ducks, 700 Red-breasted Mergansers, 15 Razorbills, a Black Guillemot, a Pomarine Jaeger, 5 Parasitic Jaegers, 225 Forster’s Terns, 15 Red-throated Loons, 835 Cory’s Shearwaters, 52 Great Shearwaters, 3,700 Northern Gannets, 3 Snow Buntings, and 34 Common Redpolls.
As winter finches continue to irrupt southwards, Evening Grosbeaks have turned up in a few places, including Wellfleet, along with several reports of Common Redpolls, and continuing large numbers of Pine Siskins.
There was a Baltimore Oriole in Eastham. Really. That’s all.
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 e-mail to [email protected].
