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Bird sightings on Cape Cod

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Sept. 6) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Two yellow-headed blackbirds turned up at Kalmus Beach in Hyannis where they were walking tamely around at the feet of birders.

Storm-driven seabirds and other birds tallied from Race Point in Provincetown included 400 Cory’s shearwaters, 2,000 great shearwaters, 380 sooty shearwaters, 360 Manx shearwaters, 17 Leach’s storm-petrels, 4 great cormorants, a Baird’s sandpiper, 3 American golden-plovers, 41 red-necked phalaropes, 4 pomarine jaegers, 61 parasitic jaegers, a Sabine’s gull, 2 Caspian terns, 36 black terns, 200 roseate terns, 6,000 common terns, and 12 Forster’s terns.

Some kayak birding in Nauset Marsh in Eastham produced 2 blue-winged teal, 14 green-winged teal, 16 black-crowned night-herons, 12 yellow-crowned night-herons, 2 American oystercatchers, a whimbrel, a buff-breasted sandpiper, a pectoral sandpiper, 81 red knots, 22 white-rumped sandpipers, a solitary sandpiper, 23 willets including 17 western willets, a black-legged kittiwake, 5 lesser black-backed gulls, 1,100 common terns, over 100 Forster’s terns, 2 peregrine falcons, and 3 bobolinks.

An evening watch of Nauset Marsh from Hemenway Landing produced 24 yellow-crowned night-herons, 100 black-crowned night-herons, 16 great blue herons, 13 great egrets, 32 snowy egrets, a green heron, a merlin, and a peregrine falcon.

Lieutenant Island in Wellfleet held 2 Hudsonian godwits, 16 whimbrels, 2 American golden-plovers, 5 American oystercatchers, 20 Forster’s terns, and a peregrine falcon.

Other sightings around the Cape included 1 Hudsonian godwit, 5 marbled godwits, 500 red knots, and 350 roseate terns at South Beach in Chatham, a little blue heron, 2 yellow-crowned night-herons, 10 whimbrels, and 12 Forster’s terns at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and a stilt sandpiper at High Head in North Truro.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org.