A Western Tanager was found at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay sanctuary on Thursday and continued at least through Friday.
The male Painted Bunting continued at a feeder in Brewster where it was recorded for the Lower Cape Christmas Bird Count on Sunday.
Other highlights from that count included a Clapper Rail and 6 Western Willets in South Chatham,2 Common Terns in North Chatham, a Blue-headed Vireo and a Yellow-breasted Chat in South Orleans, a Common Yellowthroat and 4 Northern Shovelers in Harwich, and a Short-eared Owl and a Sora at Nauset Beach in Orleans.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Black Guillemot, 200 Razorbills, 13 Dovekies, 3 Common Murres, 45 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 6 Iceland Gulls, a Red-necked Grebe, and 75 Northern Gannets.
Other sightings around the Cape included 2 continuing Eurasian Wigeon in Yarmouth Port, 2 Barrow’s Goldeneyes at Loop Beach in Cotuit, a Great Egret at Mass Audubon’s Skunknett River sanctuary in Barnstable, a Nashville Warbler reported at a house in Yarmouth, continuing unseasonably large numbers of Tree Swallows various places including over 50 in Falmouth, 2 Western Willets in Chatham, and an American Golden-Plover 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