Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Cape Cod Weekly Wildlife Sightings is sponsored by the Bird Watchers General Store in Orleans and Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The following sightings were reported between August 29 and August 29, 2023.
The Lesser Sand-Plover at South Cape Beach in Mashpee was last seen on the 22nd, but a Baird’s Sandpiper has been present there all this week.
The American Avocet continued at Woodneck Beach in Falmouth this week.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Brant, 2 Whimbrels, a Long-tailed Jaeger, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Black Terns, 200 Roseate Terns, 800 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 30 Great Shearwaters, 38 Sooty Shearwaters, 15 Manx Shearwaters, a Little Blue Heron, 3 American Kestrels, and a Cliff Swallow.
Reports from multiple surveys of remote parts of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham this week included 33 Gadwall, 8 Northern Pintail, 23 Green-winged Teal, 18 Ruddy Ducks, 3 Pied-billed Grebes, 14 American Coots, 3 Common Gallinules, 6 Hudsonian Godwits, a Marbled Godwit, 2 Peregrine Falcons, and 3500 Tree Swallows.
Birds at Morris Island in Chatham included 144 American Oystercatchers, 37 Red Knots, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 2 Western Sandpipers, 6 Whimbrel, 6 Hudsonian Godwit, a Merlin, and 2 Peregrine Falcons.
Birds reported from Wellfleet Bay sanctuary this week included 7 Green-winged Teal, 9 Whimbrel, 25 Forster’s Terns, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, an Olive-sided Flycatcher, a Cliff Swallow, and a Canada Warbler.
Other sightings around the Cape included at least 2 continuing Blue Grosbeaks and a Vesper Sparrow at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Western Sandpiper in Sandwich, 2 Little Blue Herons and a Marbled Godwit at Forest Beach in Chatham, 2000 Roseate Terns on North Beach in Chatham, a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and a Wilson’s Warbler in Brewster, 10 American Golden-Plovers at Nauset Inlet in Orleans, a Bay-breasted Warbler in Eastham, and Blackburnian Warblers in Truro and Mashpee.
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 [email protected].