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December 6 – December 12, 2023

A likely Rufous or Allen’s Hummingbird continued in a yard in Wellfleet on the 5th.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a King Eider, 2 Harlequin Ducks, 1575 Long-tailed Ducks, 1719 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Pomarine Jaeger, 1600 Razorbills, 39 Dovekies, 2 Pacific Loons, 6 Thick-billed Murres, 66 Common Murres, a Black Guillemot, 32 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 5 Iceland Gulls, a Great Shearwater, and 350 Northern Gannets.

A survey of North Monomoy island in Chatham this week turned up 250 Long-tailed Ducks, an American Oystercatcher, 4 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 5 Marbled Godwits, 360 Sanderlings, 640 Dunlin, and 90 Red Knots.

Other sightings around the Cape included single Eastern Phoebes in Falmouth and Wellfleet, 3 Great Egrets and a Tree Swallow at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, a Nashville Warbler at Long Pasture sanctuary in Cummaquid, a Black-headed Gull at Craigville Beach, an Indigo Bunting in Orleans, 3 Western Willets at Forest Beach in Chatham, and a Painted Bunting continuing elsewhere in Chatham through last Friday.