Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of April 4) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
The painted bunting was found again this week on Brick Hill Road in Orleans.
A king eider continues at the herring run on the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne, and a tufted duck is on nearby Great Herring Pond in Bourne.
Birds at Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich this week included a Eurasian green-winged teal, 1 blue-winged teal, 26 green-winged teal, a bald eagle, 5 osprey, an American bittern, 3 black-crowned night-herons, a snowy egret, a great egret, a Wilson’s snipe, 8 greater yellowlegs, 4 lesser yellowlegs, 2 laughing gulls, and 5 barn swallows.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a king eider, a Manx shearwater, a sooty shearwater, 12 common murres, a thick-billed murre, 235 black-legged kittiwakes, and 20 Iceland gulls. A Pacific loon was at nearby Herring Cove.
Other sightings around the Cape included a brown thrasher in Falmouth, a snow goose in Sandwich, a continuing Oregon dark-eyed junco in Mashpee, a black-headed gull in Osterville, a Manx shearwater at Corporation Beach in Dennis, a dickcissel at Bank Street Bogs in Harwich, and a northern fulmar and 415 black-legged kittiwakes at First Encounter Beach in Eastham.
For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.