The first Ospreys, Piping Plovers, and American Oystercatchers were reported this week, a few days ahead of schedule.
The Bohemian Waxwing continued sporadically in Yarmouth Port this week, mostly keeping company with Cedar Waxwings.
A Townsend’s Solitaire continued at High Head in North Truro, where other sightings included a very early Purple Martin, 3 Common Ravens, a Marsh Wren, 5 Gray Catbirds, a Brown Thrasher, a Common Yellowthroat, and 50 Yellow-rumped Warblers.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 4 Piping Plovers, 2 American Oystercatchers, 537 Razorbill, 16 Common Murres, a Thick-billed Murre, 2 Dovekies, a Glaucous Gull, 5 Iceland Gulls, 156 Red-throated Loons, and an early Barn Swallow.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Northern Shrike and a Brown Thrasher in Falmouth, a Great Egret in Mashpee and up to two in West Barnstable, an American Bittern and a Willet in West Harwich, a Willet and a Lesser Yellowlegs in Chatham, 2 Barn Swallows at Monomoy NWR, and a Lincoln’s Sparrow in Wellfleet.