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Cape Cod Weekly Wildlife Sightings is sponsored by the Bird Watchers General Store in Orleans and Mass Audubon s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The following sightings were reported between and December 15 and December 21, 2020.
Painted Buntings were visiting feeders in Eastham, Orleans, and Falmouth this week.
The Pink-footed Goose continues at Eldredge Field and Boland Pond in Orleans.
A Western Tanager continues to visit a feeder in Brewster while another was found near Nauset Beach in Orleans.
The Buzzard’s Bay Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday with highlights including multiple Redheads, a Blue-headed Vireo, a Lincoln’s Sparrow, 2 Black Vultures, 2 Barred Owls, a Northern Shrike, and both Red and White-winged Crossbills.
Bird sightings on Cape Cod
Recent sightings (through Dec. 15) as reported to Mass Audubon.
A painted bunting was found at a feeder in Eastham.
The pink-footed goose continued at Eldredge Field in Orleans.
A king eider was found among thousands of common eiders in North Chatham.
A Western tanager continued to visit a feeder in Brewster while another was photographed in a yard in Dennis.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a pomarine jaeger, 34 dovekies, 2 thick-billed murres, 21 common murres, 450 razorbills, 235 black-legged kittiwakes, 6 Iceland gulls, 7 great shearwaters, a snowy owl, 45 common redpolls, and several dozen red crossbills.
Other large flocks of common redpolls were seen at beaches and marshes from Sandy Neck to Provincetown, including 50 at Lieutenant Island in Wellfleet.