Recent sightings (through July 8) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A brown booby passed Race Point in Provincetown.
Other sightings at Race Point included a surprise Atlantic puffin flyby, a little gull, a black tern, a glaucous gull, 5 lesser black-backed gulls, 24 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 58 Cory’s shearwaters, 2 great shearwaters, 4 sooty shearwaters, and 9 Manx shearwaters.
A new state record 6 swallow-tailed kites were seen near the Cotuit Center for the Arts, as well as 2 Mississippi kites.
A Wilson’s storm-petrel, a Cory’s shearwater, and 2 great shearwater were at Great Island in Wellfleet, and at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary birders reported a clapper rail, 4 whimbrels, 5 short-billed dowitchers, and 2 orchard orioles.
Other sightings around the Cape included a tricolored heron in Woods Hole, a Caspian tern and 3 blue grosbeaks elsewhere in Falmouth, 3 yellow-crowned night-herons in Barnstable Harbor, a veery singing in West Barnstable, 2 black vultures in Hyannis and one in Provincetown, a Forster’s tern and 2 black skimmers in Chatham, and at least one continuing chuck-will’s-widow 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.