Recent sightings (through Sept. 17) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A loggerhead shrike was at Forest Beach in Chatham.
A brown pelican has been spotted various places including the bay side of Wellfleet and East Harbor in Truro.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a buff-breasted sandpiper, a Sabine’s gull, a Pacific loon, 15 parasitic jaegers, 3,100 common tern, 16 Cory’s shearwaters, 7 great shearwaters, 4 sooty shearwater, and 50 Manx shearwaters.
Sightings at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge included a common goldeneye, 20 blue-winged teal, 3 Northern shoveler, 8 Northern pintail, 3 green-winged teal, 9 ruddy ducks, 6 pied-billed grebe, and 5 black-crowned night herons.
Other sightings around the Cape included a golden-winged warbler at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a blue grosbeak in Barnstable, single barn owls in Chatham and Provincetown, a little blue heron at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and 5 seaside sparrows and a Nelson’s sparrow elsewhere in Wellfleet.
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.