Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, August 13, 2024
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 7 and August 13, 2024.
An Atlantic Puffin and 3 Long-tailed Jaegers were seen at Race Point in Provincetown over the weekend along with a Pacific Loon, a Black Tern, 315 Roseate Terns, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 400 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 17 Cory’s Shearwaters, 75 Great Shearwaters, 6 Sooty Shearwaters, 52 Manx Shearwaters, 2 Whimbrels, 3 Glossy Ibis, and 2 Cliff Swallows.
An International Shorebird Survey Blitz of Nauset Marsh on the 6th tallied 3000 Semipalmated Plovers, 4 Whimbrels, 4 Hudsonian Godwits, 825 Short-billed Dowitchers, 3 “Henderson’s” Short-billed Dowitchers, 274 Red Knots, 25 White-rumped Sandpipers, 340 Least Sandpipers, 8 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2700 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 7 Forster’s Terns, 400 Common Terns, 30 Roseate Terns, 11 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, 18 Snowy Egrets, 9 Great Egrets, 7 Great Blue Herons, and 12 Saltmarsh Sparrows.
Some early migrant warblers this week included a Nashville Warbler and a Blue-winged Warbler in different parts of Mashpee and 2 Black-throated Green-Warblers that landed on a whale watch boat on Stellwagen Bank.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in Bourne, 4 Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth, 2 Cliff Swallows in Chatham, 2 Little Blue Herons in West Barnstable, a Common Nighthawk in Eastham, a Cliff Swallow and a Red-necked Phalarope at Ballston Beach in Truro, and an American Bittern at High Head in North Truro.
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].