Weekly Bird Report
The Weekly Bird Report with Mark Faherty can be heard every Wednesday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and has led birding trips for Mass Audubon since 2002. He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and current member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.
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If you’re like me, you had a lot of neighbors return over the weekend, and they don’t appear to be self-quarantining. Weirdly upbeat in these difficult… -
This week on the bird report, spring birds have started to arrive in big numbers.
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This week on the Bird Report, Mark contemplates how bird species on Cape Cod have varied over the years.
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Late April is a heady time in birding – when it comes to spring migration, everything is either happening or just about to happen, or in some case, has never happened before.
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Spring, that cold, wet joke played on us Cape and Islands folk, begins in less than two weeks.
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It’s piping plover nesting season – and that means a chance to see some amusing mating rituals.
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This week on the Bird Report: seeking out the late-March arrivals.
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This week on the Bird Report, a bird that can stay on Cape Cod over the winter – with a little help.
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For several years we’ve had a vacancy in a small, detached apartment on our property. Occasionally, an unwanted squatter would move in and cause trouble, but lately it’s been available. We’ve been looking for a very specific type to move in – relatively quiet during the day, maybe works nights, comfortable with small spaces – at less than one square foot, this apartment isn’t right for just any family. Finally, last week, we got the tenant we were looking for – an Eastern Screech Owl.
