Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

A Crested Caracara was photographed during a bird walk at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary on the 27^th, possibly the bird seen in in Provincetown in July. The family of Swallow-tailed Kites, including two adults and two recently fledged juveniles being fed by continued in Mashpee and Cotuit. Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 4 Red Phalaropes, 8 Red-necked Phalaropes, 9 Black Terns, 400 Roseate Terns, [...]

After several years of presumed breeding activity by Swallow-tailed Kites on the Upper Cape, birders finally got proof this week in the form of two recently fledged juveniles being fed by two adults in Cotuit. A Mississippi Kite was also seen in the same location. Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 4 Black Vultures, [...]

The famously friendly Bridled Tern summering in Scituate once again visited the Cape, this time interacting with a woman and her dog at Seagull Beach in Yarmouth on the 13th. At least 3 Swallow-tailed Kites continued along Rt 28 in Cotuit and nearby areas. Birds tallied at Nauset Inlet in Orleans/Eastham included 4415 Semipalmated Plovers, [...]

At least 2 Swallow-tailed Kites continued along rt 28 in Cotuit and nearby areas. The oddly friendly Bridled Tern that tried to land on the back of a birder at Race Point last Sunday was next seen on Nantucket, then Martha’s Vineyard, where it perched on a yellow lab. It was last seen on someone’s deck railing in Duxbury on the 1st. Birds at Race Point this week included an Atlantic Puffin, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, a Black Guillemot, and an Iceland Gull. [...]

A Bridled Tern, almost certainly the very tame bird summering on Scituate Harbor, tried to land on the back of a birder at Race Point on Sunday. Other birds at Race Point included an Atlantic Puffin, a Black Guillemot, a Sabine’s Gull, 100 Roseate Terns, 4 Red Knots, 17 Piping Plovers, 148 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, and small numbers of all four species of shearwater. [...]

A Curlew Sandpiper was found in Nauset Marsh in Eastham this week. Three Swallow-tailed Kites were in Barnstable this week near Lovell’s Pond, a traditional area for the now annual and likely breeding population of these southern raptors. Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Gull-billed Tern [...]

Astoundingly, a Crested Caracara, a bird whose nearest breeding population is in Central Florida ranchland, flew in to Race Point on Saturday, remaining in the outer dunes at least into Sunday. Other sightings from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a South Polar Skua, [...]

A single Swallow-tailed Kite was seen in Marstons Mills this week. A Royal Tern was seen at Sampson’s Island in Osterville on the 3rd. Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown this week included 16 Short-billed Dowitchers, a Royal Tern, a Little Gull, [...]

Two Brown Pelicans and 2 Royal Terns were reported in Nauset Marsh in Eastham this week. Single Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in South Sandwich and Cotuit and a Mississippi Kite was reported over Barnstable. Adult Yellow-crowned Night Herons continue to be around in unprecedented numbers, [...]