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"No one has ever seen one on the Cape."

As the old saying goes, “if you love something, let it go, if it comes back it’s yours forever...” yadda yadda yadda – you know the one. Well, I love birds, and I love the challenge of puzzling out their often secret identities.

The Point's monthly birds program.

After a month of hard-to-believe bird discoveries, I’m almost happy to report that not much happened in the last week. A small amount of an unfamiliar, wet substance fell from the sky at one point, confusing birds and people alike.

While Cape Cod sees a lot of visitors in the summer, brown pelicans usually arent part of the mix.

The monthly Bird program on The Point.

Like it or not, we’re on the downhill to Labor Day. For birding, this means you need to get your fill of shorebirds and summer seabirds soon, because after early September they thin out faster than the tourists with school-aged kids.

Our monthly birds show (& other creatures too).

Now that summer is fully here in tourism terms, it’s peak time for whale watches — a must on anyone’s list of summer activities, whether you’re a salty local or a wide-eyed weekly renter.

Studying the unique habitats and species of the Cape and the islands.