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February 28 – March 5, 2024

A Townsend’s Solitaire continued at High Head in North Truro this week.

A Painted Bunting was reported from a yard in Dennis on Sunday.

The Western Kingbird and Lark Sparrow continued at the Salt Pond visitor’s center in Eastham this week.

Birds in a complex of cemeteries in Provincetown this weekend included a Snow Goose, a Clay-colored Sparrow, a Chipping Sparrow, and a mixed flock of blackbirds including Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, and 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 5 Harlequin Ducks, a Black Guillemot, 87 Razorbills, a Common Murre, a Glaucous Gull, 7 Iceland Gulls, a Merlin, and 9 Tree Swallows.

Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing Northern Shrike at Crane WMA in Falmouth, 2 Black Vultures in Bourne, a Brown Thrasher and 2 Great Egrets in West Barnstable, a Semipalmated Plover in Hyannis, a Dickcissel and a Blue-winged Teal in Yarmouth Port, a Whimbrel in West Dennis, a Willet and an American Bittern in Chatham, and a Red Crossbill in Wellfleet.