Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, September 24, 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 18 and September 24, 2024.

An unconfirmed Eurasian Kestrel was described from the dunes of Provincetown on Monday.

A Brown Pelican continued various places around Wellfleet and Eastham this week, including Great Island and Indian Neck in Wellfleet, and First Encounter and the Salt Pond in Eastham.

Storm-driven and other nice birds reported from Race Point in Provincetown this week included an Atlantic Puffin, a Little Gull, a Sabine’s Gull, a Pacific Loon, a Baird’s Sandpiper, a Red Phalarope, 135 Red-necked Phalaropes, a Long-tailed Jaeger, 102 Parasitic Jaegers, 6 Pomarine Jaegers, a South Polar Skua, 36 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 790 Laughing Gulls, 13 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2200 Common Terns, 100 Roseate Terns, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, 270 Cory’s Shearwaters, 137 Great Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters, 119 Manx Shearwaters, 52 Horned Larks, and 3000 Tree Swallows.

Storm driven birds at Sandy Neck in Barnstable over the weekend included 2 Harlequin Ducks, 250 White-winged scoters, 8 American Golden-Plovers, 5 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, a Caspian Tern, 15 Cory’s Shearwaters, 17 Great Shearwaters, and 21 Manx Shearwaters.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Connecticut Warbler and a Red-necked Grebe in Mashpee, 2 Caspian Terns in Barnstable Harbor, an Alder Flycatcher and a Connecticut Warbler banded at Wing Island in Brewster, and 4 Clapper Rails and a Little Blue Heron at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary.

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].