Recent sightings (through July 9) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A brown booby was photographed off Race Point in Provincetown.
Other birds at the Race included a gull-billed tern, a royal tern, an Arctic tern, a black tern, 15 Wilson’s storm-petrels, a yellow-crowned night-heron, 35 Cory’s shearwaters, 40 great shearwaters, 20 sooty shearwaters, and 4 Manx shearwaters.
A swallow-tailed kite was seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee.
Sightings at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included a wood duck, 6 killdeer, an American kestrel, 2 alder/willow flycatchers, 15 Eastern kingbirds, 4 brown thrashers, 7 Northern mockingbirds, 30 grasshopper sparrows, 30 field sparrows, 35 Eastern towhees, 6 Eastern meadowlarks, 6 orchard orioles, 13 prairie warblers, 7 indigo buntings, and at least one blue grosbeak.
Other sightings around the Cape included a rose-breasted grosbeak and a black vulture in West Barnstable, an American bittern in Cummaquid, 3 whimbrels in Dennis and 2 more at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, a black guillemot off Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, and a continuing chuck-will’s-widow at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham.
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.