Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 1, 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 September 25 and October 1, 2024.

A Common Gallinule was at Mill Pond in Chatham this week.

Single Prothonotary Warblers, exceptionally rare in fall, were seen in Mashpee and South Monomoy this week.

A Brown Pelican was seen again this week on the bay off South Wellfleet and North Eastham.

Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Baird’s Sandpiper and a Pacific Loon. plus 23 Red-necked Phalaropes, an American Golden-Plover, 16 Parasitic Jaegers, a Northern Fulmar, 65 Cory’s Shearwaters, 16 Great Shearwaters, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 14 Manx Shearwaters, and 2300 Tree Swallows.

At Monomoy, birds noted this week included 7 Blue-winged Teal, 50 Green-winged Teal, 3 Ring-necked Ducks, 9 Ruddy Ducks, 2 Pied-billed Grebes, 3 American Coots, 2 Hudsonian Godwits, 2 Marbled Godwits, 4 Pectoral Sandpipers, 15 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and 80 Forster’s Terns.

Sightings from Nauset Beach in Orleans included a Connecticut Warbler, 23 Parasitic Jaegers, 2900 Common Terns, 395 Manx Shearwaters, 12 American Pipits, and a Dickcissel.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Connecticut Warbler in Mashpee and a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and a Connecticut Warbler in Wellfleet.

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].