Outer Cape Weekend

From Bob Stymeist:

This past weekend from Friday through yesterday I led an annual Brookline Bird Club trip-the Cape Cod Blitz from Chatham to Provincetown, nine participants tallied 114 species during the three days; on Friday we started in Chatham and ended up at Hemingway Landing in Eastham. Saturday we birded Wellfleet from 7:30-6:30 and Sunday we started at MacMillian Pier in Provincetown  and ended in Truro. The weather , promising to deliver southbound migrants didn't materialize , at least in our minds and migrants and even residents were hard to come by.

Our highlights included the BROWN BOOBY on the breakwater in P'town Harbor, a BLUE GROSBEAK in Wellfleet (High Toss Road), six Philadelphia Vireos and 15 species of warblers including two Tennessee (one in Wellfleett and one in Truro, an Orange-crowned at Ryder Beach, Truro and a Cape May at Bound Brook in Wellfleet.) There was a good show of jaegers at Race Point along with several Great Shearwaters and a Cory's. Two adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls at the Chatham Fish Pier, an Olive-sided Flycatcher in Wellfleet and a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher at the Beech Forest in P'town.