At least 2 Swallow-tailed Kites continued along rt 28 in Cotuit and nearby areas.
The oddly friendly Bridled Tern that tried to land on the back of a birder at Race Point last Sunday was next seen on Nantucket, then Martha’s Vineyard, where it perched on a yellow lab. It was last seen on someone’s deck railing in Duxbury on the 1st.
Birds at Race Point this week included an Atlantic Puffin, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, a Black Guillemot, and an Iceland Gull.
Birds seen during shorebird surveys at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge on the 31st included 11 American Oystercatchers, 350 Semipalmated Plovers, 1207 Short-billed Dowitchers, 61 Willets, 136 Ruddy Turnstones, 4 Stilt Sandpipers, 2400 Sanderlings, 4 Western Sandpipers, 5180 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1200 Laughing Gulls, and 1000 Common Terns.
Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth, 5 Bobolinks in Mashpee, 3 Black Vultures in Bourne, 2 Little Blue Herons and a Marbled Godwit at Forest Beach in Chatham, a Little Blue Heron in Harwich, a Merlin in Orleans, at least one Chuck-will’s-Widow continuing at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, 4 Western Sandpipers and 4 Long-billed Dowitchers in Nauset Marsh in Eastham, a Dickcissel at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, 2 Least Bitterns in North Truro, 2 American Golden-Plovers and a Western Sandpiper at First Landing Park in Provincetown, and a Caspian Tern on Stellwagen Bank.
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