Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 22, 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 16 and October 22, 2024.

A Gray Kingbird was seen at Fort Hill and later Nauset Light Beach in Eastham this week, representing just the second record for Cape Cod.

Elsewhere in Eastham, a Painted Bunting was reported from Brewster Sand and Gravel.

In Wellfleet, a likely Western Kingbird, or perhaps another type of kingbird from the western US, was reported from Chequessett Neck Rd on Tuesday.

Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Red-necked Phalarope, 980 White-winged Scoters, 250 Black Scoters, a Red-necked Grebe, 2 White-rumped Sandpipers, 9 Parasitic Jaegers, 2 Pomarine Jaegers, 140 Black-legged Kittiwakes,125 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 9 Forster’s Terns, 500 Laughing Gulls, 9 Forster’s Terns, 240 Common Terns, 17 Red-throated Loons, 250 Cory’s Shearwaters, 200 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, 2 Manx Shearwaters, 400 Northern Gannets, and 40 American Pipits.

Birds at Gray’s Beach in Yarmouth on Tuesday included two Caspian Terns, 20 Red Knots, 200 Black-bellied Plovers, and 150 Forster’s Terns.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Gray-cheeked Thrush in Falmouth, a Grasshopper Sparrow in Barnstable, a Chestnut-sided Warbler in Dennis, a Black-billed Cuckoo in Harwich, two Snow Geese reported flying over Truro, and a Warbling Vireo and Piping Plover 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].