Recent sightings (through July 18) as reported to Mass Audubon.
An out of season red-necked grebe and 2 yellow-crowned night-herons were at Forest Beach in Chatham.
A chuck-will’s-widow was calling near Nauset Light Beach in Eastham.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a royal tern, 11 piping plovers, 3 black terns, 16 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 29 Cory’s shearwaters, 43 great shearwaters, 10 sooty shearwaters, 3 Manx shearwaters, a bald eagle, and an American kestrel.
Surveys from remote parts of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge turned up 7 Hudsonian godwits, 325 least sandpipers, 4,825 semipalmated sandpipers, 1,945 short-billed dowitchers, 233 willets, 8 Western willets, 30 Bonaparte’s gulls, an Iceland gull, 5,000 common terns, and a glossy ibis.
Other sightings around the Cape included 5 blue grosbeaks and a family of merlins in Falmouth, a yellow-crowned night-heron at Hallet’s Mill Pond in Yarmouth, a stilt sandpiper in Nauset Marsh in Eastham, and a clapper rail in Wellfleet.
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.
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