Mid-May Madness

Mark Faherty recaps an exciting week of spring migration on Cape Cod, featuring rare ibis sightings, a surprise Chestnut-collared Longspur, and the unofficial arrival of “Ibisfest.”

This week’s spring migration reached spectacular heights as rare southern visitors mixed with huge numbers of songbirds pouring into Cape Cod from across the Atlantic.

Mark Faherty talks about a few of the long distance travelers that he has spotted this May from the Nashville Warbler to the Blue-headed Vireo and many more.

Mark Faherty talks about the birds showing up at your feeders.

How did a hemisphere-trotting hawk of the arid west get to Cape Cod?

Mark Faherty talks about the different types of birds returning to the area this time of year from the Golden-crowned Kinglet to the Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Mark Faherty talks about the surging bird populations on the Cape in the springtime.

Ornithologist Mark Faherty talks about the return of a Tufted Titmouse making its return to Nantucket.

What we lacked in numbers of the common owls, we made up for with encounters with some of the more sought after species.

Looking at waxwings and eiders to find their unusual relatives among the flocks.