Up to two White Ibis and two White-faced Ibises continued this week in Chatham.
An incredible variety of storm driven birds were turned up during and after Saturday’s storm, including a Ruff at Race Point in Provincetown. Other sightings at Race Point included a Red Phalarope, a South Polar Skua, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, a Long-tailed Jaeger, a Thick-billed Murre, 5 Common Murres, a Little Gull, 2 Iceland Gulls, 40 Arctic Terns, a Pacific Loon, 15 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 3 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, a Northern Fulmar, 15 Great Shearwaters, 32 Sooty Shearwaters, 19 Manx Shearwaters, 500 Northern Gannets, and a Merlin.
Post-storm birds at First Encounter Beach in Eastham on Sunday included a Red Phalarope, 30 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2 Sabine’s Gulls, 25 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 15 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 2 Great Shearwaters, 5 Sooty Shearwaters, 3 Manx Shearwaters, and 550 Northern Gannets.
An amazing number of migrants tallied at the Provincetown airport one morning this week included 2 Black-billed Cuckoos, 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 38 Chimney Swifts, 52 Common Loons, 53 Eastern Kingbirds, 292 Blue Jays, a state record 5795 Cedar Waxwings, 110 Bobolinks, 2 Northern Waterthrush, a Tennessee Warbler, 7 Magnolia Warblers, 9 Blackburnian Warblers, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, 54 Blackpoll Warblers, and 2 Indigo Buntings.
Bird surveys on Monomoy NWR on the 27th tallied a Northern Pintail, a Long-tailed Duck, 5 American Oystercatchers, 125 Black-bellied Plovers, 400 Ruddy Turnstones, 2 Red Knots, 300 Dunlin, 250 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2Black Skimmers, 2500 Common Terns, 34 Glossy Ibis, and 90 Black-crowned Night-Herons.
Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included a Sandhill Crane at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Lesser Scaup and a Harlequin Duck Mashpee, a Swallow-tailed Kite at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a Black Vulture in Barnstable, a Tricolored Heron in Orleans, an Acadian Flycatcher in Brewster, an American Golden-Plover and 2 Pectoral Sandpipers in Eastham, 300 Dunlin, a White-throated Sparrow and an Olive-sided Flycatcher in Truro, and a Summer Tanager at Beech Forest in Provincetown.
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