Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Aug. 2) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
A survey of Stellwagen Bank marine sanctuary tallied 1,000 Cory’s shearwaters, 2,000 great shearwaters, 600 sooty shearwaters, 35 Manx shearwaters, 4,500 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 4 red-necked phalaropes, 4 parasitic jaegers, and 2 long-tailed jaegers.
At Race Point in Provincetown, sightings included over 5,000 Cory’s or great shearwaters, 125 sooty shearwaters, 14 Manx shearwaters, 400 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a pomarine jaeger, 2 parasitic jaegers, 8 black-legged kittiwakes, 550 roseate terns, and 5,000 common terns.
A survey of Sandy Neck in Barnstable turned up 2 little blue herons, 24 great blue herons, 37 great egrets, 45 snowy egrets, 3 Forster’s terns, a yellow-billed cuckoo, 17 Eastern phoebes, 26 Eastern kingbirds, and an American pipit.
Other sightings included a barred owl in Harwich, 5 black terns at the Powder Hole on South Monomoy, 230 red knots at North Beach Island in Chatham, 2 worm-eating warblers in Wellfleet, and a pied-billed grebe at the Beech Forest in Provincetown.
For more information or to report sightings, call Massachusetts Audubon at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.