Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Sept. 13) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

A Northern wheatear was found in a difficult-to-access- area of Sandwich. This small Arctic nesting songbird typically migrates from northern Canada east across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa for the winter, and is only rarely recorded in our area.

A tricolored heron and a little blue heron were seen in the West Harwich Conservation Area.

Race Point birds included a blue-winged teal, hundreds of all four shearwater species, 2 American golden plovers, 2 whimbrels, a red-necked phalarope, a pomarine jaeger, 13 parasitic jaegers, 19 black terns, 500 roseate terns, more than 10,000 common terns, 36 Forster’s terns, 2 merlins, a peregrine falcon, and 3,000 tree swallows.

Birds noted on a trip down Nauset Beach in Orleans and Chatham included 5 Cory’s and 1 sooty shearwater, 2 Northern harriers, 5 American oystercatchers, 700 black-bellied plovers, 800 semipalmated plovers, 12 whimbrel, 150 red knots, a dunlin, 50 white-rumped sandpipers, 5 parasitic jaegers, 4,000 common terns, 12 Forster’s terns, and a veery.

Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Caspian terns in Sandwich and another off Woods Hole, 5 glossy ibis at Forest Beach in Chatham, 4 marbled godwits and 150 red knots at Tern island in Chatham, Connecticut warblers banded at Wing Island in Brewster and at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and an Acadian flycatcher also banded at Wing Island.

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.