Print      
Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent sightings on Cape Cod (as of May 3) as reported to the Mass. Audubon Society.

A Pacific loon continued at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown. A Kentucky warbler was found in the Beech Forest in Provincetown, along with 2 wood ducks, 2 yellow-bellied sapsuckers, a winter wren, 3 blue-gray gnatcatchers, and a Northern parula.

At Race Point in Provincetown sightings included a parasitic jaeger, a common murre, 14 razorbills, 4 black-legged kittiwakes, 8,000 Bonaparte’s gulls, a little gull, a black-headed gull, 1,200 laughing gulls, 1,500 herring gulls, 27 Iceland gulls, 22 lesser black-backed gulls, a glaucous gull, 2 roseate terns, 25 common terns, and 2 American kestrels.

Grassland surveys at Massachusetts Military Reservation tallied 6 upland sandpipers, a whip-poor-will, 3 grasshopper sparrows, a Northern harrier, 3 American kestrels, and 8?Eastern meadowlarks. New arrivals included orchard and Baltimore orioles, blue-headed vireos, blue-gray gnatcatchers, and common, roseate, and least terns. Others included a black vulture near the Bourne Bridge, a worm-eating warbler at John’s Park in Mashpee, 12 American oystercatchers at Tern Island in Chatham, and a red knot at Chapin Beach in Dennis.

For more information or to report sightings, call the Mass. Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.