Recent sightings (through Oct. 17) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A rufous hummingbird was found at a community garden in Orleans, and late ruby-throated hummingbirds were seen in Falmouth, Sandwich, and Chatham.
A Western tanager was seen at Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary in Cummaquid.
Single common murres continued in Sesuit Harbor in Dennis and Wellfleet Harbor.
From Race Point to Herring Cove in Provincetown, birds reported included an American oystercatcher, a black guillemot, a roseate tern, 5 parasitic jaegers, a razorbill, 15 black-legged kittiwakes, 6 lesser black-backed gulls, a hybrid herring x great black-backed gull, 3 great shearwaters, 2 sooty shearwaters, 185 Manx shearwaters, 7 ruby-crowned kinglets, and 7 American pipits.
Sightings from remote parts of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge included 1,200 surf scoters, 1,000 white-winged scoters, 400 black scoters, 46 American oystercatchers, 1,200 black-bellied plovers, an American golden-plover, 28 piping plovers, 250 red knots, 2,400 sanderlings, 1,150 dunlin, 12 white-rumped sandpipers, 2 short-billed dowitchers, 36 lesser black-backed gulls, a common gallinule, a barn owl, 5 peregrine falcons, 5,000 tree swallows, 30 golden-crowned kinglets, a gray-cheeked thrush, 2 Swainson’s thrushes, and a clay-colored sparrow.
Other sightings around the Cape included a little blue heron in Falmouth, late piping plover in Mashpee; a Eurasian wigeon, 104 American wigeon, and 12 green-winged teal in Marstons Mills; a green heron and 3 yellow-crowned night-herons in West Barnstable; single black-billed cuckoos in Brewster and Orleans; 2 black skimmers in Dennis and 6 more in Chatham; and a whimbrel at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary.
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.