Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 8, 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 2 and October 8, 2024.
A Western Kingbird was found at Peterson Farm in Falmouth on Tuesday.
A Common Gallinule continued at Mill Pond in Chatham this week.
The long-staying Brown Pelican was last reported on the 2nd, this time at High Head in Truro.
Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Baird’s Sandpiper, 2 American Golden-Plovers, a Pacific Loon, a Common Murre, 20 Parasitic Jaegers, 11 Cory’s Shearwaters, 1 Sooty Shearwater, 10 Manx Shearwaters, 3 Common Ravens, 3 American Kestrels, and 42 American Pipits.
A shorebird survey at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied 445 Black-bellied Plovers, 166 Semipalmated Plovers, 29 Piping Plovers, 24 Red Knots, 2 White-rumped Sandpipers, a Western Sandpiper, 13 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, a Peregrine Falcon, and a Common Raven.
Sightings from Santuit Pond in Mashpee included a Lawrence’s Warbler, a Connecticut Warbler, and a Yellow-breasted Chat.
Birds at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay sanctuary included a Black Skimmer, 40 Forster’s Terns, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, a Veery, a Gray-cheeked Thrush, 37 Eastern Bluebirds, and a Blue-winged Warbler.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in Bourne, a late Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Yarmouth Port, Gray-cheeked Thrushes 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].