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Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Jan. 31) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

The sedge wren was seen again at Fort Hill in Eastham.

A greater white-fronted goose and a canvasback continued in Harwich.

An impressive seabird show at Race Point in Provincetown included a king eider, a Pacific loon, a little gull, a black headed gull, 97 red-throated loons, a bald eagle, 420 sanderlings, 300 dunlin, 77 dovekies, 142 common murres, 46 thick-billed murres, 3,400 razorbills, 300 black-legged kittiwakes, 27 Iceland gulls, a merlin, and 87 snow buntings.

Storm-blown birds seen at First Encounter Beach in Eastham included an amazing 22 Atlantic puffins, 10 thick-billed murres, 58 dovekies, and 330 black-legged kittiwakes.

In Barnstable, 2 Northern shovelers and 2 Northern pintails were at Mill Pond in Marstons Mills, a “Western’’ willet continued at Barnstable Harbor, a displaying American woodcock continued off 6A, and an Eastern phoebe and 2 vesper sparrows continued at the organic farm.

Other sightings around the Cape included a yellow-breasted chat in Woods Hole, a continuing Eurasian wigeon in Sandwich, a Baltimore oriole in Yarmouth, 4 chipping sparrows and a Baltimore oriole in Orleans, a snow goose at Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, and a black-headed gull in Wellfleet.

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.