The Townsend's solitaire continued to make appearances this week at the edges of the golf course in the King's Way neighborhood in Yarmouthport.
Despite the cold snap and decreasing areas of open water on ponds, uncommon ducks were still being reported from Falmouth this week, including 4 redheads, 4 green-winged teal, and a Eurasian wigeon at Perch Pond, 2 wood ducks at White's Landing Rd. in East Falmouth, plus 4 canvasbacks, 9 ring-necked ducks, 85 greater/lesser scaup, all three species of merganser, and 2 American coot elsewhere in town. Some non-ducks were also seen in Falmouth, including a turkey vulture, a northern harrier, a Bonaparte's gull, a belted kingfisher, a brown creeper, 2 red-breasted nuthatches, 4 eastern bluebirds, 2 hermit thrushes, 2 gray catbirds, and an eastern towhee.
Birds at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary this week included 2 northern bobwhites, 2 red-breasted nuthatches, a field sparrow, 2 swamp sparrows, 4 yellow-rumped warblers, 100 red-winged blackbirds, and 4 brown-headed cowbirds.
Among the 21 species reported from a Truro yard for Cornell's Project Feederwatch were an encouraging 19 northern bobwhites, plus a field sparrow, 2 northern flickers, and 2 yellow-rumped warblers.
Miscellaneous reports this week included a glaucous gull at Race Point in Provincetown, 2 harlequin ducks in Provincetown Harbor, a hermit thrush in Orleans, and 2 horned larks at Scusset Beach in Sandwich.
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 e-mail to sightings@massaudubon.org.
The Cape Cod Natural History Hotline is sponsored by the Bird Watchers General Store in Orleans and Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
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 e-mail to sightings@massaudubon.org.
