Recent sightings (through June 25) as reported to Mass Audubon.
Two swallow-tailed kites were again seen over Mashpee near the transfer station and DPW offices, and two Mississippi kites were photographed over Thompson’s Field in Harwich.
A Franklin’s gull was seen again at Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings included a white-rumped sandpiper, two royal terns, an Arctic tern, a black tern, and 22 roseate terns.
Other sightings around the Cape included two blue grosbeaks in Falmouth, single black vultures in Bourne and Mashpee, an Acadian flycatcher and a yellow-crowned night-heron in Mashpee, 2 American wigeon in West Harwich, a chuck-will’s-widow at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and 2 gadwall, a cattle egret, and a little blue heron in Chatham.
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.