Mark Faherty is a writer at The Cape And Islands NPR Station. With a focus on animals, travel, and tourism, he explores themes related to wildlife and conservation, while also delving into topics like Cape Cod, holidays, and real estate. Mark has been featured in various publications, sharing his insights and experiences from his extensive work in bird ecology and nature exploration.
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Occasionally I'm allowed away from my desk to go outside and teach people about birds.
As we turn another calendar page, we’re also turning a corner in the fall migration. I’ve always preferred October to September, mainly because we tend to get more birds later in the fall.
Just when I thought I had a topic, some late-breaking bird news sends me back to the drawing board.
By: Mark Faherty
Last week's Vermilion Flycatcher, the briefly famous female photographed at South Cape Beach in Mashpee, turned out to be a one-day wonder, as we birders say – she hasn't been seen since. Beyond a wayward Western Kingbird that's still hanging around Peterson Farm in Falmouth, it was a quiet week on the Cape for fall rarities. The Vineyard, on the other hand, sported out-of-range, birder-pleasing niceties like a Brown Pelican, maybe the same young bird that bopped around the region last month, a Western Tanager, and a Prothonotary Warbler.
With an exceedingly rare Gray Kingbird that played hide and seek with birders in Eastham this week, the Cape reclaimed the title of rare bird capital of the region, but sadly this Caribbean visitor kept moving - it was last seen on the 19
Another week, another lost flycatcher from some far-flung locale has turned up. This one had been flung further than most, having perhaps started its journey as far away as Argentina. SOUTHERN Argentina. Sadly for local birders, though present almost a week, this premium rarity of supra-regional interest wasn't reported until several days after it had disappeared from the Chatham neighborhood it frequented. I was among the saddest of local birders given that this now-long-gone bird had been perching on street-level telephone wires ten-minutes from my house. This lost flycatcher was the absurdly proportioned Fork-tailed Flycatcher.
Let’s face it, we all woke up this morning with the same question: what’s going on with seabirds right now? I’m glad you asked, because the answer is “a whole helluva lot.”
Cory's are the biggest of our four shearwaters, a group of wind-surfing seabirds who navigate the trackless oceans by smell, riding the wind deflected upwards off waves to effortlessly cover hundreds of miles in search of fish and squid. The northwesterly gale had apparently pushed yesterday's shearwaters to shore, and I watched as scores of these open ocean birds were cycling in and out of the harbor, the Sandy Neck lighthouse and cottage colony in the background. The big Cory's were joined by a minority of Manx Shearwaters, just a handful, distinguished by their darker backs, smaller size, and much faster wingbeats.
Does anyone else remember the good ol' days, when towhees were Rufous-sided and harriers were Marsh Hawks? I sure do.
It's Thanksgiving Eve, so I suppose you expect me to dish out the usual stale, leftover poultry puns sandwiched between the same old turkey fun facts. Well, you're right. So let's not mince words and get right into the meat of the topic.
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