Recent sightings (through Oct. 29) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A fork-tailed flycatcher was seen and photographed in Chatham but was not reported until it had been gone several days. This was the seventh Cape Cod record of this South American flycatcher.
A Western tanager was found in West Barnstable.
Birds from Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific loon, an Iceland gull, 3 wood ducks, 51 green-winged teal, a harlequin duck, 550 surf scoters, 1,100 white-winged scoters, 570 black scoters, 33 long-tailed ducks, 650 red-breasted mergansers, 13 pomarine jaegers, 8 razorbills, a common murre, 35 black-legged kittiwakes, 400 Cory’s shearwaters, a Scopoli’s shearwater, 300 great shearwaters, and 600 Northern gannets.
A shorebird survey at Monomoy NWR in Chatham produced 930 black-bellied plovers, 3 American golden-plovers, 265 semipalmated plovers, 3 piping plovers, 10 Western sandpipers, 69 ruddy turnstones, 325 red knots, 2,070 sanderlings, 2,595 dunlin, 30 white-rumped sandpipers, 10 Western sandpipers, 91 semipalmated sandpiper, 225 Forster’s terns, 2 Northern harriers, and 2 dickcissels.
Birds at Gray’s Beach in Yarmouth included a purple sandpiper, 4 red knots, a Manx shearwater, and 1,100 Northern gannets.
Other sightings around the Cape included a bobolink in Marstons Mills, a Caspian tern and 4 Nelson’s sparrows in Osterville, a snowy egret in Yarmouth, a veery in Brewster, and a purple sandpiper 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.