Words on Birds: Rare birds continue to appear this fall

After the roseate spoonbill event in Marshfield that I wrote about last week, the “anything can happen” fall migration continues.

Last Saturday, the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary bird banding group looked and spotted a white pelican flying high overhead! Photographs were taken of the large bird with black flight feathers and large yellow bill, as the bird soared out into Cape Cod Bay. Unfortunately, it was never seen, or at least reported, again.