Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Feb. 9) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
The mountain bluebird continues to be seen at Crane WMA in Falmouth.
Other sightings in Falmouth included 2 greater white-fronted geese and 3 snow geese continuing in the Falmouth High School area, a Northern pintail and 5 redheads in Salt Pond, a canvasback on Sider’s Pond, a Barrow’s goldeneye and a bald eagle at Great Pond, a Eurasian wigeon and a redhead on Little Pond, and an American kestrel, a merlin, and 8 Eastern meadowlarks at Crane WMA.
A productive pelagic birding trip to the waters south and east of Chatham tallied 5 Atlantic puffins, several common murres, a black guillemot, a sooty shearwater, 2 Northern fulmars, over 20 Iceland gulls, 2,500 long-tailed ducks, and 30,000 common eiders.
Some excellent sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included over 12,000 razorbills, 102 common murres, 4 thick-billed murres, 4 dovekies, 4 black guillemots, 115 Iceland gulls, a snowy owl, and 60 snow buntings.
Other sightings included 2 wood ducks in Sandwich, a thick-billed murre under the Sagamore Bridge in Bourne, an orange-crowned warbler in Mashpee, 2 barred owls in West Barnstable, a glaucous gull and a black-crowned night-heron in Hyannis Harbor, 9 pine siskins in Osterville, 24 ruddy turnstones and 3 purple sandpipers in Hyannisport, 2 Baltimore orioles visiting a yard in Cummaquid, and a black-headed gull at Wychmere Harbor in Harwich.
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.
