Today 5 people joined me for a Cape Cod Bird Club trip around Mashpee from 9:00am - 3:00pm. We found several nice birds but the late start and the warm weather...
Cape Cod Weekly Wildlife Sightings is sponsored by the Bird Watchers General Store in Orleans and Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The...
As I sailed into the Seepuit River in Osterville yesterday, the Three bays/Audubon people were viewing a pair of American Oystercatchers bobbing actively in...
Did some birding/atlasing in Mashpee this morning. Finally confirmed Wood Duck by spotting a female with 5 young. Also watched a pair of Belted Kingfishers ...
Hi Mary, Where did you see the wood ducks? Linda Lynch Popponesset ... From: Mary Keleher <maryeak@...> Subject: [capecodbirds] Mashpee...
Hi Linda, The female with young were in a wet area adjacent to Mashpee Wakeby Pond at the end of Birch Way, which is off of Route 130. There's a paved...
I've had a Yellow-billed Cuckoo vocalizing in my yard in Brewster since Sunday and I saw the bird both Monday and today. -- Sue Finnegan Wing Island Banding...
Doing some mopping up and upgrading in BBA block Falmouth 4 in Falmouth and Mashpee this morning. Ended up adding a few new species to the block list. Of...
I watched a House Wren stuffing twigs into one of my nest boxes yesterday. When I say stuffing, I mean literally cramming from bottom to top as many twigs as...
Hi Peter, was the box being used previously to the wren's arrival? I ask because I have seen this behavior by wrens destroying another birds eggs then...
Yes, that nest box has been a popular destination since I installed it this spring. Our other boxes haven't been nearly as contentious. We first had Blue...
This morning Ashley Keleher and I birded in Mashpee from 9:00am-10:30am. We came across a very photogenic male Northern Bobwhite perched up singing on a stone ...
Great photo! Thanks for sharing Linda Lynch Popponesset ... From: Mary Keleher <maryeak@...> Subject: [capecodbirds] Mashpee Sightings To: "Massbird"...
Saw a very large bird fishing on the north end of Sheep Pond yesterday Sunday 22 June, an immature bald eagle? A thunderstorm was rolling through so the sky...
Thanks to a tip from a visitor at the sanctuary today, the previously reported Snow Goose seems to be hanging out in Wellfleet Center in Baker's Field. This...
About 3 years an immature Bald Eagle spent the whole month of June here in Mashpee. There was a recent report of a Bald Eagle near Snake Pond in Sandwich. I...
Birded the Outer Cape yesterday (6/24) from Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham to Prince Valley Road in Truro. Mix of beaches early before the people...
I had 6 American Oystercatchers at low tide this morning near Sippewissett Marsh in Falmouth. There were two distinct groups - one group of 4 and a very...
Yesterday Ashley Keleher and I spent about 10 minutes watching a young Red-tailed Hawk hunting Cicadas. We first spotted the hawk flying across an open area....
I have posted some photographs taken of the Oystercatchers seen Thursday 6/26/08. These are not spectacular photos - I was quite a bit away from them and have...
Here's the link to a photo of the immature bald eagle taken last week in Chatham. It made the cover of the Cape Cod Chronicle. Same bird I saw in Brewster. ...
My daughter Ashley and I had the pleasure of watching a pair of Black-capped Chickadees build a nest and raise young in one of the nest boxes in our yard. We...
Wonderful to see Mary's photos of the chickadees. We had a chickadee nest in a clay bird bottle 5 feet from our kitchen window this season (it has been used...
Last year I had a small white bird in my yard which I thought might be a snow bunting. It was white with a pale beak and longtitudinal black stripes along the...