The famously friendly Bridled Tern summering in Scituate once again visited the Cape, this time interacting with a woman and her dog at Seagull Beach in Yarmouth on the 13^th.

At least 3 Swallow-tailed Kites continued along Rt 28 in Cotuit and nearby areas.

Birds tallied at Nauset Inlet in Orleans/Eastham included 4415 Semipalmated Plovers, 21 Piping Plovers, 40 Short-billed Dowitchers, 7 White-rumped Sandpipers, 1130 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 115 Least Terns, 4 Forster’s Terns, and 12 Roseate Terns.

A survey of a remote part of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge turned up 20 American Oystercatchers, 1015 Black-bellied Plovers, 1665 Semipalmated Plovers, a Hudsonian Whimbrel, 2 Hudsonian Godwits, 4 Marbled Godwits, 1695 Short-billed Dowitchers, 159 Ruddy Turnstones, 359 Red Knots, 2755 Sanderlings, a Baird’s Sandpiper, 9 White-rumped Sandpiper, 3230 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 200 Common Terns, and 300 Roseate Terns.

Other sightings around the Cape included the continuing Harlequin Duck in East Falmouth, a Blue Grosbeak and a Dickcissel at Crane WMA in Falmouth, another Dickcissel Harwich, a Tricolored Heron and a Little Blue Heron at Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich, a Stilt Sandpiper in North Chatham, and 3 Black Vultures in Eastham.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

At least 3 Swallow-tailed Kites continued along rt 28 in Cotuit and nearby areas, and a Mississippi Kite was photographed in Falmouth.

Birds at Race Point this week included an American Golden-Plover, 2 Whimbrel, 10 Red-necked Phalarope, a Black Tern, 2 Arctic Terns, 750 Roseate Terns, 400 Common Terns, 130 Least Terns, 40 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, and small numbers of Great, Cory’s, Sooty, and Manx Shearwaters. 

Birds tallied at the Chatham end of Nauset Beach included 185 Black-bellied Plovers, 390 Semipalmated Plovers, 670 Short-billed Dowitchers, a Long-billed Dowitcher, 11 Lesser Yellowlegs, 12 Red Knots, 205 Sanderlings, 490 Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 25 Roseate Terns.

A survey of the south end of Monomoy NWR turned up 10 Ruddy Ducks, 2 American Coot, 6 American Oystercatchers, 275 Semipalmated Plovers, 10 Piping Plovers, 500 Short-billed Dowitchers, 2 Long-billed Dowitchers, a Stilt Sandpiper, a Black Skimmer, 5 Forster’s Terns, and a Black Tern.

Birds at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary included a Marbled Godwit, 16 Whimbrels, 2 Yellow-crowed Night-Herons, 3 Little Blue Herons, and an American Golden Plover.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Dickcissel at Crane WMA in Falmouth plus another in Mashpee, 2 Marbled Godwits at Forest Beach in Chatham, at least one Chuck-will’s-Widow continuing at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, a Stilt Sandpiper at Duck Harbor in Wellfleet, and an American Golden-Plover in Provincetown Harbor.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

At least 2 Swallow-tailed Kites continued along rt 28 in Cotuit and nearby areas.

The oddly friendly Bridled Tern that tried to land on the back of a birder at Race Point last Sunday was next seen on Nantucket, then Martha’s Vineyard, where it perched on a yellow lab. It was last seen on someone’s deck railing in Duxbury on the 1st.

Birds at Race Point this week included an Atlantic Puffin, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, a Black Guillemot, and an Iceland Gull.

Birds seen during shorebird surveys at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge on the 31^st included 11 American Oystercatchers, 350 Semipalmated Plovers, 1207 Short-billed Dowitchers, 61 Willets, 136 Ruddy Turnstones, 4 Stilt Sandpipers, 2400 Sanderlings, 4 Western Sandpipers, 5180 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1200 Laughing Gulls, and 1000 Common Terns.

Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth, 5 Bobolinks in Mashpee, 3 Black Vultures in Bourne, 2 Little Blue Herons and a Marbled Godwit at Forest Beach in Chatham, a Little Blue Heron in Harwich, a Merlin in Orleans, at least one Chuck-will’s-Widow continuing at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, 4 Western Sandpipers and 4 Long-billed Dowitchers in Nauset Marsh in Eastham, a Dickcissel at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, 2 Least Bitterns in North Truro, 2 American Golden-Plovers and a Western Sandpiper at First Landing Park in Provincetown, and a Caspian Tern on Stellwagen Bank.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

Single Mississippi Kites were seen in Sandwich and Mashpee on the 21^st and another was seen in Sandwich on the 16^th.

At least 2 Gull-billed Terns were seen in Provincetown and another was at Forest Beach in Chatham. 

Adult, likely breeding Yellow-crowned Night Herons seem to be around in unprecedented numbers, with 6 in West Barnstable, 3 in Yarmouth, up to 4 in Harwich, and 3 at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary. 

Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown this week included 2 Blue-winged Teal, 2 Black Guillemots, a Common Murre, a Little Gull, and at least seven species of terns including the Gull-billed, plus a Royal, 2 Black, 2 Arctic, and 10 Roseate.

At least two Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included 2 Blue Grosbeaks and 15 Grasshopper Sparrows at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Harlequin Duck in Mashpee, an Alder Flycatcher at Wing Island in Brewster, a late lingering Dark-eyed Junco elsewhere in Brewster, a Little Blue Heron and an American Bittern in West Harwich, 

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

A Hooded Warbler and an Acadian Flycatcher were found in the Long Pond woodlands of Brewster this week.

A Western Kingbird was at Santuit Pond in Mashpee on the 3^rd.

A Kentucky Warbler visited a yard in Barnstable on the 8^th.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, a Thick-billed Murre, a Northern Fulmar, a Little Gull, 58 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 2 Black-headed Gulls, 2 Caspian Terns, 4 Arctic Terns, 2 Forster’s Terns, 5 Sooty Shearwaters, 20 Manx Shearwaters, a Merlin, and a Cliff Swallow.

Bird surveys on Monomoy NWR tallied 2 Northern Pintail, 5 American Oystercatchers, 35 Willets, 400 Ruddy Turnstones, and 39 Red Knots. 

Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included 3 Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Red Crossbill in Bourne, a Harlequin Duck and a Veery in Mashpee, a Swallow-tailed Kite in Barnstable and 3 Mississippi Kites in Mashpee, a Black Vulture in Barnstable, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable, 3 Little Blue Heron in West Dennis, a Gadwall in Harwich, a Razorbill and 2 Sooty Shearwaters in Cape Cod Bay off Orleans, and a Blue-headed Vireo in North Truro.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

Up to two White Ibis and two White-faced Ibises continued this week in Chatham.

An incredible variety of storm driven birds were turned up during and after Saturday’s storm, including a Ruff at Race Point in Provincetown. Other sightings at Race Point included a Red Phalarope, a South Polar Skua, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, a Long-tailed Jaeger, a Thick-billed Murre, 5 Common Murres, a Little Gull, 2 Iceland Gulls, 40 Arctic Terns, a Pacific Loon, 15 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 3 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, a Northern Fulmar, 15 Great Shearwaters, 32 Sooty Shearwaters, 19 Manx Shearwaters, 500 Northern Gannets, and a Merlin.

Post-storm birds at First Encounter Beach in Eastham on Sunday included a Red Phalarope, 30 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2 Sabine’s Gulls, 25 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 15 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 2 Great Shearwaters, 5 Sooty Shearwaters, 3 Manx Shearwaters, and 550 Northern Gannets.

An amazing number of migrants tallied at the Provincetown airport one morning this week included 2 Black-billed Cuckoos, 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 38 Chimney Swifts, 52 Common Loons, 53 Eastern Kingbirds, 292 Blue Jays, a state record 5795 Cedar Waxwings, 110 Bobolinks, 2 Northern Waterthrush, a Tennessee Warbler, 7 Magnolia Warblers, 9 Blackburnian Warblers, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, 54 Blackpoll Warblers, and 2 Indigo Buntings.

Bird surveys on Monomoy NWR on the 27^th tallied a Northern Pintail, a Long-tailed Duck, 5 American Oystercatchers, 125 Black-bellied Plovers, 400 Ruddy Turnstones, 2 Red Knots, 300 Dunlin, 250 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2Black Skimmers, 2500 Common Terns, 34 Glossy Ibis, and 90 Black-crowned Night-Herons.

Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included a Sandhill Crane at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Lesser Scaup and a Harlequin Duck Mashpee, a Swallow-tailed Kite at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a Black Vulture in Barnstable, a Tricolored Heron in Orleans, an Acadian Flycatcher in Brewster, an American Golden-Plover and 2 Pectoral Sandpipers in Eastham, 300 Dunlin, a White-throated Sparrow and an Olive-sided Flycatcher in Truro, and a Summer Tanager at Beech Forest in Provincetown.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

There was an invasion of White Ibises into the region over the weekend, with 22 seen first in Sandwich then later in Hyannis and Provincetown, 6 in West Harwich, one in Chatham, and another in Mashpee. The previous state high count was 5 from last year.

A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was found at Peterson Farm in Falmouth on Tuesday.

Single Mississippi Kites were seen in Provincetown, Chatham, and Orleans this week, and two Swallow-tailed Kites were also seen in Chatham. Another Swallow-tailed Kite was in Mashpee.

A survey of Stellwagen Bank waters tallied a Ruby-throated Hummingbird several miles out to sea, a Razorbill, a Common Murre, 16 Northern Fulmar, a Sooty Shearwater, a Manx Shearwater, and 76 Northern Gannets.

A fallout of migrants noted at the Provincetown Airport/Race Point area on the 17^th included a Wilson’s Phalarope, 3 Solitary Sandpipers, 9 Glossy Ibis, 242 Eastern Kingbirds, 812 Blue Jays, 4 Cliff Swallows, 710 Cedar Waxwings, 12 Purple Finches, 505 Bobolinks, 17 Northern Waterthrushes, 75 Black-and-white Warblers, 45 American Redstarts, 30 Cape May Warblers, 60Northern Parulas, 90 Magnolia Warblers, 8 Bay-breasted Warblers, 10 Chestnut-sided Warblers, 42 Blackpoll Warblers, 150 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 2500 additional unidentified warblers, and 8 Scarlet Tanagers. On Tuesday an additional 1500 Cedar Waxwings, 780 Blue Jays, and a Pine Siskin were noted passing the airport.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included an American Golden-Plover, 2 Common Murres, a Little Gull, and a Cliff Swallow.

And Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included aHarlequin Duck and a Purple Sandpiper at South Cape Beach in Mashpee, 2 Worm-eating Warblers in Mashpee and 3 more each in Sandwich and Falmouth, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons and a Hooded Warbler in West Barnstable, a Little Blue Heron in Yarmouth, a Blue Grosbeak in Harwich, a Kentucky Warbler and a Hooded Warbler at Fort Hill in Eastham, and a Lark Sparrowelsewhere in Eastham.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

There was an invasion of White Ibises into the region over the weekend, with 22 seen first in Sandwich then later in Hyannis and Provincetown, 6 in West Harwich, one in Chatham, and another in Mashpee. The previous state high count was 5 from last year.

A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was found at Peterson Farm in Falmouth on Tuesday.

Single Mississippi Kites were seen in Provincetown, Chatham, and Orleans this week, and two Swallow-tailed Kites were also seen in Chatham. Another Swallow-tailed Kite was in Mashpee.

A survey of Stellwagen Bank waters tallied a Ruby-throated Hummingbird several miles out to sea, a Razorbill, a Common Murre, 16 Northern Fulmar, a Sooty Shearwater, a Manx Shearwater, and 76 Northern Gannets.

A fallout of migrants noted at the Provincetown Airport/Race Point area on the 17^th included a Wilson’s Phalarope, 3 Solitary Sandpipers, 9 Glossy Ibis, 242 Eastern Kingbirds, 812 Blue Jays, 4 Cliff Swallows, 710 Cedar Waxwings, 12 Purple Finches, 505 Bobolinks, 17 Northern Waterthrushes, 75 Black-and-white Warblers, 45 American Redstarts, 30 Cape May Warblers, 60Northern Parulas, 90 Magnolia Warblers, 8 Bay-breasted Warblers, 10 Chestnut-sided Warblers, 42 Blackpoll Warblers, 150 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 2500 additional unidentified warblers, and 8 Scarlet Tanagers. On Tuesday an additional 1500 Cedar Waxwings, 780 Blue Jays, and a Pine Siskin were noted passing the airport.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included an American Golden-Plover, 2 Common Murres, a Little Gull, and a Cliff Swallow.

And Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included aHarlequin Duck and a Purple Sandpiper at South Cape Beach in Mashpee, 2 Worm-eating Warblers in Mashpee and 3 more each in Sandwich and Falmouth, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons and a Hooded Warbler in West Barnstable, a Little Blue Heron in Yarmouth, a Blue Grosbeak in Harwich, a Kentucky Warbler and a Hooded Warbler at Fort Hill in Eastham, and a Lark Sparrowelsewhere in Eastham.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

A Gull-billed Tern was reported in Mashpee on the 9^th.

Two Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in South Sandwich and singles were reported from Mashpee to Marstons Mills.

Three Chuck-will’s-widows are back for another season by Nauset Light Beach in Eastham.

Single Summer Tanagers were reported in a few places, including a jelly feeder at Wild Birds Unlimited in Yarmouth.

A shorebird survey on Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham tallied 17 American Oystercatchers, 258 Black-bellied Plovers, 196 Willets, 63 Ruddy Turnstones, 2 Red Knots, 266 Sanderlings, 366 Dunlin, 370 Least Sandpipers, 20 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2000 Laughing Gulls, 7000 Common Terns, 1000 Double-crested Cormorants, and 4 Glossy Ibis.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 325 Black Scoters, 5 American Oystercatchers, 2 Little Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, 90 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 2200 Laughing Gulls, 12 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, a Thayer’s Iceland Gull, 3 Black Terns, 900 Common Terns, 19 Roseate Terns, 3 Manx Shearwaters, 150 Northern Gannets, 2 Black Vultures, 3 Bald Eagles, and a Summer Tanager.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Mourning Warbler and a Blue Grosbeak in Falmouth, the usual breeding Worm-eating Warblers in Falmouth and Mashpee, an Orange-crowned Warbler and a Harlequin Duck in Mashpee, one or two Black Vultures reported several places, a Red Crossbill in Brewster, a Ring-necked Duck in Hyannis, a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in Harwich and two more in Barnstable Harbor, and single White-rumped Sandpipers in Chatham and Eastham.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org

A Prothonotary Warbler was found at Mass Audubon’s Barnstable Great Marsh property in Barnstable and a Hooded Warbler was found at Fort Hill in Eastham on Tuesday. 

The Pileated Woodpecker discovered in Ryder Conservation Land and in adjacent Lowell-Holly Reservation in South Sandwich and Mashpee was last reported on the 30^th, but another was spotted on 6A in Barnstable on the 5^th.

Two Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in South Sandwich and another was at the Cotuit Center for the Arts.

Widespread new arrivals of local breeders this week include Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Baltimore Orioles, Gray Catbirds, Red-eyed Vireos, and Great-crested Flycatchers.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Grasshopper Sparrow at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Little Blue Heron in Mashpee, 2 Red Crossbills in Barnstable and 2 more in Brewster, a Ring-necked Duck in Hyannis,  2 Harlequin Ducks at Corporation Beach in Dennis, a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron and a Summer Tanager in Harwich, a Glaucous Gull in Truro, 6 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels on Stellwagen Bank, and an Orange-crowned Warbler in Provincetown.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to cape.sightings@massaudubon.org