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November 22 – November 28, 2023

A Painted Bunting showed up at a private feeder in South Chatham on Tuesday.

Rough-legged Hawks were seen in Orleans and Dennis this week.

Two Little Gulls were seen at Corporation Beach in Dennis.

A nice Thanksgiving morning seabird flight at First Encounter Beach in Eastham included 40 Razorbills, 175 Dovekies, 3410 Black-legged Kittiwakes, a Cory’s Shearwater, 8 Great Shearwaters, 4 Sooty Shearwaters, and 2600 Northern Gannets.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, 12 Green-winged Teal, 7000 Common Eiders, 2000 Black Scoters, 3000 Red-breasted Mergansers, 1800 Razorbills, 9 Common Murres, a Little Gull, 55 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 400 Bonaparte’s Gulls, a Black-headed Gull, 17 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, and 1200 Northern Gannets.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Black-headed Gull at Salt Pond in Falmouth, 2 late Piping Plovers at Sea Gull Beach in Yarmouth, a Whimbrel in West Dennis, 3 Willets in Chatham, 24 Tree Swallows in Wellfleet, and a Northern Parula in Provincetown.