Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 15, 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 October 8 and October 15, 2024.
A Vermilion Flycatcher, just the 6th state record, was seen on the 8th at South Cape Beach in Mashpee but has not been relocated since.
A Western Kingbird continued at Peterson Farm in Falmouth this week.
Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, 53 Green-winged Teal, 545 Surf Scoters, 886 White-winged Scoters, an American Golden-Plover, 12 White-rumped Sandpipers, a Razorbill, 2 Pomarine Jaegers, 7 Parasitic Jaegers, 15 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, a Herring x Lesser Black-backed Gull hybrid, 93 Cory’s Shearwaters, 22 Great Shearwaters, 41 Manx Shearwaters, and 45 American Pipits.
Reports from Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay sanctuary included 4 Wood Ducks, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 60 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Clapper Rails, 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, a Philadelphia Vireo, a White-eyed Vireo, a Winter Wren, a Swainson’s Thrush, a Lapland Longspur, a Purple Finch, and 2 Nelson’s Sparrows.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Blue-winged Warbler in Mashpee, a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in West Barnstable, a Black-billed Cuckoo in Brewster, and a Fox Sparrow on Pochet Island in Orleans.hes in Falmouth and Wellfleet, a Lark Sparrow in Chatham, a Hooded Warbler in Wellfleet, and a Warbling Vireo 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].