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December 13 – December 19, 2023

An Ash-throated Flycatcher was briefly seen near Uncle Tim’s Bridge in Wellfleet last week.

A Rufous Hummingbird continued as recently as Friday in a private yard Wellfleet.

Highlights from the Cape Cod Christmas Bird count, covering areas from Harwich to South Wellfleet, included a reported MacGillivray’s Warbler in Eastham; a Townsend’s Warbler in Orleans; a Wilson’s Warbler in Brewster; a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, an American Oystercatcher, and three Western Willets in Chatham; a Lincoln’s Sparrow in South Wellfleet; and Yellow-breasted Chats in Chatham and Brewster.

Highlights from the Buzzard’s Bay Christmas Bird Count on Saturday included 2 Redheads, a hybrid Barrow’s x Common Goldeneye, 55 Fish Crows, a House Wren, a Lincoln’s Sparrow, a Western Tanager, and a Clay-colored Sparrow.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Thick-billed Murre, a Black Guillemot, 17 Dovekie, 21 Common Murres, 700 Razorbills, a Great Shearwater, a Sooty Shearwater, and 75 Snow Buntings.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Sora in Barnstable, a Whimbrel in West Dennis, a Blue-headed Vireo in East Harwich, a Sooty Shearwater and 2 Semipalmated Plovers in Orleans, and a Dickcissel at a feeder in Wellfleet.