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Title: Hey Shaky, did you see all these birds on Vaca? Post by: Donna on 18-Aug-10, 09:09:08 PM Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Aug. 11) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. A brown pelican was seen in Buzzards Bay near Wood’s Hole, but has not been seen since. In Chatham, a bar-tailed godwit was reported from North Beach Island, when it was last seen flying north.
At South Beach in Chatham there were 2 common eiders, 2 common loons, 25 greater shearwaters, 25 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 1 Northern gannet, 250 double-crested cormorants, 2 snowy egrets, a yellow-crowned night-heron, 2 ospreys, a Northern harrier, a peregrine falcon, 500 black-bellied plovers, 2,000 semipalmated plovers, 14 American oystercatchers, 16 piping plovers, 200 greater yellowlegs, 45 willets, 2 Western willets, a spotted sandpiper, 15 whimbrels, 68 Hudsonian godwits, 5 marbled godwits, 75 ruddy turnstones, 100 red knots, 300 sanderlings, 4,000 semipalmated sandpipers, 50 least sandpipers, 100 short-billed dowitchers, a Bonaparte’s gull, 250 roseate terns, 1,300 common terns, 7 black terns, and 14 saltmarsh sparrows. At Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary there were a glossy ibis, a yellow-crowned night-heron, a black-crowned night heron, 6 green herons, 6 great-blue herons, 25 whimbrels, a pectoral sandpiper, and 10 spotted sandpipers. At Hemenway Landing in Eastham, 5 yellow-crowned night-herons, 11 black-crowned night-herons, and 49 whimbrels were noted. A Lawrence’s warbler, which is a hybrid between blue-winged and golden-winged warblers, was spotted at Pilgrim Heights in Truro. A snowy egret and 19 whimbrels were in the Pamet River marshes elsewhere in Truro. 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. I would have a :heart: attack if I saw all these birds! My word! :o |