Bird watching for kids
- Bill Thompson III is editor of the bimonthly Bird Watcher’s Digest and author of “The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America.”
(JULIE ZICKEFOOSE)
Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. ABOVE: Red-shouldered hawks have been sighted in Sandwich and Bourne.
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)
Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. (ABOVE: Snowy owl.)
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.
EDITORIAL
Puffins: It’s better in Bermuda
- The National Audubon Society’s Project Puffin, which has been restoring puffins to Maine islands since the 1970s, put geolocators on eight birds. One of those bird’s journey was nothing short of amazing.
Rare bird sighted in Wellfleet
- Bird watchers are flocking to the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary where a rare lazuli bunting appeared at a bird feeder last week.
Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. ABOVE: A red-shouldered hawk was seen at Dutchman’s Ditch in Falmouth.
Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Snowy owls were reported from Seagull Beach in Yarmouth and North Beach Island in Chatham.
(MARK BROWN/FILE)