Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

A Townsend’s Solitaire was found in Provincetown over the weekend. A Tufted Duck was at Seymour Pond in Brewster among 1100 Greater and a few Lesser Scaup. At least two Cave Swallows were at Nauset Beach in Orleans. [...]

A late Ruby-throated or perhaps Black-chinned Hummingbird appeared at a feeder in Cummaquid on the 25th. A Survey of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied 11 American Oystercatchers, 3 Piping Plovers, 533 Black-bellied Plovers, 113 Red Knots, 249 Sanderlings, [...]

A Townsend’s Solitaire was found along the Herring River in Wellfleet on Sunday. A Yellow-throated Warbler and two Evening Grosbeaks appeared in the yard of a sharp-eyed resident of Cummaquid this week. Twelve Cave Swallows were at Nauset Beach in Orleans along with 18 late Barn Swallows [...]

A Brown Booby continues between Corporation Beach and Sesuit Harbor in Dennis. The Gray Kingbird at Fort Hill in Eastham was not seen again after the 4^th, but an Ash-throated Flycatcher was reported there on the 5^th. Single Cave Swallows were reported from several locations from Dennis to [...]

A Brown Booby was found at both Corporation Beach and Sesuit Harbor in Dennis over the weekend and was still present as of at least Monday. Three Leach’s Storm-Petrels were also seen at Corporation. A Tufted Duck was found at Herring Pond in Eastham on the 4th, and a seawatch at nearby First Encounter Beach [...]

An American White Pelican flew over Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay sanctuary on the 24th. A Lark Sparrow was banded at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge on Monday. A possible Western Warbling Vireo was reported from Mass Audubon’s Long Pasture sanctuary in Barnstable over the weekend, [...]

A Townsend’s Warbler was banded at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary on the 16th. A Common Gallinule was found at Mill Pond in Falmouth on the 19th. Two Sandhill Cranes and a Eurasian Wigeon were seen at South Monomoy this week, where other sightings included 16 Northern Pintail, [...]

The Common Gallinule at Santuit Pond in Mashpee was last seen on the 9^th. A Short-eared Owl was at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, where other sightings included 4 Northern Pintail, 64 Green-winged Teal, 1000 Common Eider, 3500 Surf Scoters, 7500 White-winged Scoters, 6000 Black Scoters, and 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. [...]

A Bell’s Vireo was banded at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge last week. A Common Gallinule was at Santuit Pond in Mashpee as recently as the 4th. Other birds at Santuit included a Blue-winged Teal, a Northern Pintail, [...]