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October 12 – October 18, 2022

The Black-throated Gray Warbler was rediscovered at Pochet Island in Orleans this week.

The continuing Brown Pelican was most recently reported from Lieutenant Island in Wellfleet.

At Race Point in Provincetown, sightings this week included 8 Red Phalaropes, 4 White-rumped Sandpipers, Pomarine Jaegers, 12 Parasitic Jaegers, 21 Razorbills, 52 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 46 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 2 Lesser black-backed Gulls, 345 Cory’s Shearwaters, 6 Great Shearwaters, 4 Sooty Shearwaters, 8 Manx Shearwaters, 2 Northern Harriers, 2 Common Ravens, and 6 American Pipits.

Sightings around Pleasant Bay in Chatham this week included a late Piping Plover, 36 American Oystercatchers, 10 Red Knots, and 8 Lesser black-backed Gulls.

Ducks in Mill Pond in Marstons Mills this week included a Wood Duck, 52 American Wigeon, a Northern Pintail, and 23 Green-winged Teal.

Other sightings around the Cape included single Common Nighthawks in Dennis and Eastham, 5 Marbled Godwits and 18 Western Willets in Chatham, a Blackburnian Warbler and a probable Alder Flycatcher in Brewster, a late Green Heron in Eastham, an American Bittern in Orleans, and a Philadelphia Vireo and a Wood Thrush reported in Truro.