A late Ruby-throated or perhaps Black-chinned Hummingbird appeared at a feeder in Cummaquid on the 25th. 

A Survey of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied 11 American Oystercatchers, 3 Piping Plovers, 533 Black-bellied Plovers, 113 Red Knots, 249 Sanderlings, and 949 Dunlin, 1040 Northern Gannets, and 110 Tree Swallows.

Elsewhere in Chatham, birds at Forest Beach included 8 American Oystercatchers, 2 Hudsonian Whimbrels, 4 Western Willets, 2 either Long or Short-billed Dowitchers, 25 Greater Yellowlegs, 8 Horned Grebes, and 6 Tree Swallows.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 2 Little Gulls, 1500 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Pomarine Jaeger, a Black Guillemot, 425 Razorbills, 24 Dovekie, 3 Common Murre, 120 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 1200 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 4 Iceland Gulls, 9 Common Terns, a Manx Shearwater, 1800 Northern Gannets, a Merlin, and a Peregrine Falcon.

A birder canvassing the neighborhoods of Provincetown found a nice assortment of songbirds that included a late Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Nashville Warbler, a possible Western Tanager, 7 Purple Finches, 4 Evening Grosbeaks, and 2 Dickcissels.

Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing Red-eyed Vireo in Mashpee, 2 Eurasian Wigeon in Sandwich and one in Dennis, a Dickcissel in Cummaquid, 2 Barn Swallows in Harwich a Nashville Warbler in Orleans, and 16 Eastern Meadowlarks and an Orange-crowned Warbler at Fort Hill in Eastham.

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