Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, December 3, 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 November 27 and December 3, 2024.
A Painted Bunting visited a yard in Cummaquid on the 28th.
The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week. A continuing Prairie Warbler and 15 White-winged Crossbills were also there.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Pacific Loons, 500 Red-breasted Mergansers, 150 Sanderlings, 225 Dunlin, a Pomarine Jaeger, 320 Razorbills, 3 Iceland Gulls, 2 Cory’s Shearwaters, 12 Great Shearwaters, 2 Manx Shearwaters, and 2500 Northern Gannets.
At First Encounter Beach in Eastham there were 8 Cory’s Shearwater, 18 Razorbills, 105 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2500 Northern Gannets, and 40 Snow Buntings.
Unidentified hummingbirds visited yards in West Barnstable and Provincetown this week, and other sightings around the Cape included a Snowy Egret in Falmouth, a Common Tern in Barnstable, a hybrid Bufflehead x Common Goldeneye in Yarmouth, a Western Willet in West Dennis, a Magnolia Warbler and 3 American Oystercatchers in Chatham, 2 Short-eared Owls at Nauset Beach in Orleans, a Clay-colored Sparrow elsewhere in Orleans, and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and an Evening Grosbeak in Provincetown.
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].