Recent sightings (through Oct. 14) as reported to Mass Audubon.
The common gallinule at Santuit Pond in Mashpee had not been seen in nearly a week.
A short-eared owl was at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, where other sightings included 4 Northern pintail, 64 green-winged teal, 1,000 common eider, 3,500 surf scoters, 7,500 white-winged scoters, 6,000 black scoters, and 5 lesser black-backed gulls.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Caspian terns, a Northern pintail, 2 parasitic jaegers, 1,071 Cory’s shearwaters, 175 great shearwaters, a sooty shearwater, and 47 Manx shearwaters.
Other sightings around the Cape included a black vulture near the Bourne landfill, a Western sandpiper at Scusset Beach in Sandwich, an early snow bunting in Harwich, 2 yellow-crowned night-herons at Hemenway Landing in Eastham, a Black-billed cuckoo at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and a late Eastern willet in Provincetown Harbor.
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.