Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Jan. 18) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Snowy owls were reported from Seagull Beach in Yarmouth and North Beach Island in Chatham.

A common murre, 5 dovekies, and 2 Iceland gulls were at Race Point in Provincetown, and a thick-billed murre at MacMillan Pier.

Some birds reported around Truro included 2 continuing great egrets on the Pamet River, greater scaup on Pilgrim Lake, 4 Northern bobwhites, a lesser black-backed gull at Coast Guard Beach, a common murre at Highland Light, a belted kingfisher, 4 hermit thrushes, 2 gray catbirds, and a yellow-breasted chat.

A short-billed dowitcher, a long-billed dowitcher, a killdeer, and a marsh wren were among the birds at Bell’s Neck Road in Harwich.

At Herring Pond in Eastham there were 5 pied-billed grebes, 1 canvasback, 220 American coots, 1 greater scaup, 3 lesser scaup, 25 ring-necked ducks, 31 ruddy ducks, 30 hooded mergansers, a belted kingfisher, and 3 great blue herons. A redhead was reported from nearby Great Pond.

Miscellaneous sightings around the Cape included a black-headed gull at Ocean Avenue Beach in Hyannis, 10 Eastern bluebirds in an Orleans yard, 3 greater yellowlegs and 4 Eastern meadowlarks at Fort Hill in Eastham, 9 Northern pintails in Hallet’s Mill Pond in Barnstable, a palm warbler at Marconi Headquarters in Wellfleet, and a fox sparrow at Bound Brook Island in Wellfleet.

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