Recent sightings on Cape Cod reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
A fork-tailed flycatcher reported on Wednesday at the Wellfleet Bay sanctuary in South Wellfleet was still there Friday. For more details about the flycatcher as well as other bird reports from Cape Cod, call the Cape Cod Natural History hot line at 781-259-8805, ext. 3.
Reported at various sites around Cape Ann were four Cory’s shearwaters, a peregrine falcon, 104 laughing gulls, a lesser black-backed gull, two pileated woodpeckers, four red-eyed vireos, five house wrens, a blue grosbeak, and a dickcissel.
A report from Danehy Park in Cambridge included six Eastern phoebes, two red-eyed vireos, two American pipits, a yellow warbler, 15 blackpoll warblers, a late cerulean warbler, eight Wilson’s warblers, a scarlet tanager, 12 white-throated sparrows, a dickcissel, and three bobolinks.
Reported at Nantucket were six brant, 70 white-winged scoters, a little blue heron, three lesser black-backed gulls, 38 American oystercatchers, 12 golden-crowned kinglets, a Cape May warbler, a blue grosbeak, and a yellow-headed blackbird.
Other reports included three red-throated loons and two Lapland longspurs at Plum Island; five ruddy ducks at Cherry Hill Reservoir in West Newbury; a yellow-crowned night-heron in Winthrop; 30 pectoral sandpipers in Concord; a Cape May warbler, two indigo buntings, and 20 dark-eyed juncos in Waltham; a clay-colored sparrow and a blue grosbeak in Harwich; and a worm-eating warbler at the Wellfleet Bay sanctuary in South Wellfleet.
For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.massaudubon.org. ![]()



