Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s deadline on Tuesday, Oct. 4 included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
That Brown Pelican continues to be reported along the bay side of Truro and at MacMillan Pier in Provincetown.
At Race Point in Provincetown, sightings on Monday included a South Polar Skua, a Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, a Hudsonian Godwit, 22 White-Rumped Sandpipers, 5 Red-Necked Phalaropes, 96 Parasitic Jaegers, a Black Guillemot, a Common Murre, a Razorbill, 1,567 Black-Legged Kittiwakes, 1,590 Laughing Gulls, a Black Tern, 3,000 Common Terns, a Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, 4 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 16 Northern Fulmars, 213 Cory’s Shearwaters, 141 Great Shearwaters, 39 Sooty Shearwaters, 128 Manx Shearwaters, 1,375 Northern Gannets, 4 Northern Harriers, 3 American Kestrels, a Merlin, 2 Common Ravens, 28 Horned Larks, 1,000 Tree Swallows, 63 American Pipits, and a Lapland Longspur.
There was a Veery 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].
