Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of June 7) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Two Mississippi kites passed Mass Audubon’s Pilgrim Heights hawk watch in North Truro, and another was seen over North Eastham.
Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown included a Northern bobwhite, 4 Cory’s shearwaters, 13 great shearwaters, 26 sooty shearwaters, 14 Manx shearwaters, 96 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 6 American oystercatchers, 8?parasitic jaegers, 17 black-legged kittiwakes, 4 Iceland gulls, 14 lesser black-backed gulls, a little gull, an Arctic tern, and a royal tern.
Sightings at Camp Edwards included 3 upland sandpipers, 3 American kestrels, 7 grasshopper sparrows, 3 clay-colored sparrows, and 2 Eastern meadowlarks.
Other sightings around the Cape included the continuing chuck-will’s-widow in Falmouth, a clapper rail in Mashpee, a least bittern in West Harwich, an alder flycatcher in Brewster, a yellow-breasted chat on Pochet Island in Orleans, 3 purple martins at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and a Caspian tern at Head of the Meadow Beach in North Truro.
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.
