At Race Point, seabirds tallied this week included 420 red-breasted mergansers, 39 red-throated loons, 6 red-necked grebes, 2170 greater shearwaters, a sooty shearwater, 4 Manx shearwaters, 1800 northern gannets, a great cormorant, 330 black-legged kittiwakes, 400 Bonaparte's gulls, 70 common terns, 2 pomarine jaegers, 4 parasitic jaegers, 2 Atlantic puffins, 2 thick-billed murres, and 165 razorbills.
At First Encounter in Eastham there were 60 brant, 18 long-tailed duck, 380 red-throated loons, 3 common loons, a red-necked grebe, 800 northern gannets, 4 black-bellied plovers, 8 greater yellowlegs, 75 dunlin, 96 black-legged kittiwakes, 200 Bonaparte's gulls, 2 common terns, a thick-billed murre, and 35 razorbills.
And at Corporation Beach in Dennis, seabirds passing on Saturday included 550 common eider, 420 long-tailed ducks, 680 red-throated loons, 11 common loons, 15 red-necked grebes, 1050 northern gannets, a great cormorant, 230 Bonaparte's gulls, 56 common terns, and 69 razorbills.
In other sightings this week a rose-breasted grosbeak visited a feeder in Brewster, a red-necked grebe was at the Herring River dike in Wellfleet, and 7 northern bobwhites were at Wellfleet Bay 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.
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.
