Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 29, 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 23 and October 29, 2024.
A Fork-tailed Flycatcher was seen and photographed in Chatham between October 16 and 20 but was not reported util it had been gone several days. This was the 7th Cape Cod record of this South American flycatcher.
A Western Tanager was found in West Barnstable on the 29th.
Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, an Iceland Gull, 3 Wood Ducks, 51 Green-winged Teal, a Harlequin Duck, 550 Surf Scoters, 1100 White-winged Scoters, 570 Black Scoters, 33 Long-tailed Ducks, 650 Red-breasted Mergansers, 13 Pomarine Jaegers, 8 Razorbills, a Common Murre, 35 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 400 Cory’s Shearwaters, a Scopoli’s Shearwater, 300 Great Shearwaters, and 600 Northern Gannets.
A shorebird survey at Monomoy NWR in Chatham produced 930 Black-bellied Plovers, 3 American Golden-Plovers, 265 Semipalmated Plovers, 3 Piping Plovers, 10 Western Sandpipers, 69 Ruddy Turnstones, 325 Red Knots, 2070 Sanderlings, 2595 Dunlin, 30 White-rumped Sandpipers, 10 Western Sandpipers,91 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 225 Forster’s Terns, 2 Northern Harriers, and 2 Dickcissels.
Birds at Gray’s Beach in Yarmouth included a Purple Sandpiper, 4 Red Knots, a Manx Shearwater, and 1100 Northern Gannets.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Bobolink in Marstons Mills, a Caspian Tern and 4 Nelson’s Sparrows in Osterville, a Snowy Egret in Yarmouth, a Veery in Brewster, and a Purple Sandpiper 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].