Recent sightings (through July 23) as reported to Mass Audubon.
Single Mississippi kites were seen over Route 28 in Mashpee and Cotuit.
Birds noted during shorebird surveys in various parts of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge included an Iceland gull, 2 black skimmers, 62 American oystercatchers, a whimbrel, 3,100 short-billed dowitchers, 58 red knots, 2,500 semipalmated sandpipers, and 30 snowy egrets.
Birds roosting at the tip of Sandy Neck in Barnstable included an American golden-plover, 276 semipalmated plovers, 32 piping plovers, 266 semipalmated sandpipers, and 60 roseate terns.
Birds at the Chatham end of Nauset Beach included a long-tailed duck, a Caspian tern, 6 American oystercatchers, 18 piping plovers, 385 short-billed dowitchers, 11 red knots, and 50 roseate terns.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 parasitic jaeger, 2 black terns, 150 roseate terns, 120 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 18 Cory’s shearwaters, 55 great shearwaters, 7 sooty shearwaters, and 12 Manx shearwaters.
Other sightings around the Cape included 3 blue grosbeaks and a black vulture in Falmouth, a continuing chuck-will’s-widow at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and a sora at High Head in North Truro.
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.