Recent sightings (through May 5) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A prothonotary warbler was found at Mass Audubon’s Barnstable Great Marsh property in Barnstable and a hooded warbler was found at Fort Hill in Eastham.
The pileated woodpecker discovered in Ryder Conservation Land and in adjacent Lowell-Holly Reservation in South Sandwich and Mashpee was not reported recently, but another was spotted on 6A in Barnstable.
Two swallow-tailed kites were reported in South Sandwich and another was at the Cotuit Center for the Arts.
Widespread new arrivals of local breeders included ruby-throated hummingbirds, Baltimore orioles, gray catbirds, red-eyed vireos, and great-crested flycatchers.
Other sightings around the Cape included a grasshopper sparrow at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a little blue heron in Mashpee, 2 red crossbills in Barnstable and 2 more in Brewster, a ring-necked duck in Hyannis, 2 harlequin ducks at Corporation Beach in Dennis, a yellow-crowned night-heron and a summer tanager in Harwich, a glaucous gull in Truro, 6 Wilson’s storm-petrels on Stellwagen Bank, and an orange-crowned warbler in Provincetown.
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.