Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Aug. 9) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

A Mass Audubon evening program at Hemenway Landing in Eastham tallied an impressive 22 yellow-crowned night-herons and 43 black-crowned night-herons.

Sightings at Race Point included over 3,000 Cory’s, 1,200 great, 760 sooty, and 84 Manx shearwaters, 6,400 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 7 parasitic jaegers, 13 red knots, a black-legged kittiwake, a black tern, a Forster’s tern, and 300 roseate and 2,700 common terns.

A couple of visits to South Beach in Chatham produced 4 white-winged scoters, a black scoter, 200 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 30 American oystercatchers, 15 piping plovers, 2 whimbrel, 2 Hudsonian godwits, 170 red knots, and 7 saltmarsh sparrows.

At Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, sightings included 4 yellow-crowned night-herons, up to 50 snowy egrets, 12 great blue herons, 16 whimbrels, and 3 purple martins.

Other sightings around the Cape included a red-throated loon in Woods Hole, 3 ruffed grouse in Falmouth Town Forest, a Northern harrier, 3 Forster’s terns and 2 willow flycatchers at Fort Hill in Eastham, 2 immature bald eagles reported near Ryder Beach in Truro, and a little gull and a Virginia rail with three downy chicks 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.