Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. ABOVE: File photo of a Ruby-throated hummingbird.

(PHOTO: Roseann Paolini)

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. ABOVE: Red-shouldered hawks have been sighted in Sandwich and Bourne.

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Boaters urged to steer clear of endangered right whales

- Boaters off Cape Cod are being urged to keep an eye out for North Atlantic right whales in waters close to shore after about 30 of the endangered cetaceans were spotted feeding off the coast of Provincetown.

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. ABOVE: The first piping plovers of the season were recently spotted at Black Beach in Falmouth.  (file photo)

US begins to dismantle five Cape cottages

- The Cape Cod National Seashore’s push to demolish five cottages it considers dangerously vulnerable has come to shove on a remote barrier beach, and many townspeople are outraged.

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. (ABOVE: Snowy owl.)

More dolphin strandings reported on Cape

- Three dolphins stranded themselves Tuesday on the beaches of Cape Cod, an animal welfare group said today. The group was able to rescue and release two of the marine mammals, but they had to euthanize the third.

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. (Photo: Lazuli bunting.)

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of Feb. 29) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Above: Eastern bluebird.