A Pileated Woodpecker was discovered in Ryder Conservation Land and in adjacent Lowell-Holly Reservation in South Sandwich and Mashpee on Sunday, continuing into at least Monday.
A Swallow-tailed Kite was reported over Mashpee on the 26th and 27th.
Reports from Race Point in Provincetown include 2 Pacific Loons, 1000 Red-breasted Mergansers, an American Oystercatcher, a King Eider, 3 Razorbills, 2 Black Guillemots, a Black-headed Gull, a Glaucous Gull, 700 Laughing Gulls, 19 Iceland Gulls, 90 Common Loons, 4 Manx Shearwaters, an American Kestrel, a Merlin,
Early migrants this week included Yellow Warblers and Ovenbirds various places, a Prairie Warbler at the Beech Forest in Provincetown, and a Common Yellowthroat in Harwich.
Shorebirds at Monomoy NWR in Chatham included 6 American Oystercatchers, 300 Black-bellied Plovers, 16 Red Knots, and 1000 Dunlin.
Other sightings around the Cape included 16 Willets in Bourne, 3 Roseate Terns and 30 Common Terns in Falmouth, a Grasshopper Sparrow at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Worm-eating Warbler at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, a Black Vulture in Hyannis plus another in Harwich, and a hybrid Gadwall x American Wigeon in Chatham.
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