Recent sightings (through April 9) as reported to Mass Audubon.
An early summer tanager visited a yard in Chatham, while a yard in Eastham has been hosting an early indigo bunting and rose-breasted grosbeak.
A black brant was photographed in Sandwich.
At least 3 black-headed gulls continued on various beaches between Osterville and Hyannis.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Manx shearwater, 60 razorbills, 4 common murres, 5 Iceland gulls, 125 red-throated loons, 225 Northern gannets, and a common raven.
At Bell’s Neck conservation area on West Harwich, sightings included a Northern pintail, 27 green-winged teal, 4 blue-winged teal, 21 black-crowned night-herons, a clapper rail, 25 ospreys, and an early ovenbird.
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A Western kingbird continued in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included a black vulture in West Barnstable, a continuing dickcissel in Yarmouth Port, an orange-crowned warbler in Chatham, an odd sighting of a sora on rooftop in Provincetown, and several reports of early purple martins including 2 in Mashpee and 3 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.