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This Week???s Bird Sightings
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (232+ words) Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s Tuesday, Sept. 1 deadline included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Buff-Breasted…...
Manila Clams, Popular on Menus Around the Globe, Are Found in Local Waters
4+ week, 1+ hour ago (809+ words) By Delaney Dryfoos Aug 5, 2026 WELLFLEET — When commercial shellfisherman Dave Seitler began finding “weird” clams mixed into the quahogs he drags for near Jeremy Point in May 2025, he sent a picture to his friend Owen Nichols, director of marine fisheries research…...
Bridled Tern Archives
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (240+ words) Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s Tuesday, July 28 deadline included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. A Bridled Tern, almost certainly the very same bird…...
Alone With the Loftiness of Nature at Herring Cove
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (613+ words) By Evan Carton Jul 29, 2026 But there is another equally precious, and sometimes more necessary, attribute of Provincetown that stands in metaphysical opposition to its identity as a safe harbor for the self: the place dwarfs us mere humans. Though being…...
The Catbird’s Serenade
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (522+ words) By Dennis Minsky Jul 22, 2026 Bleary-eyed and up on one elbow, I can’t quite make out the bedside alarm clock nestled in a jumble of books and papers but manage to see a bright red number 4. It is predawn. A sliver…...
This Week’s Bird Sightings
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (258+ words) Confirmed bird sightings on the Outer Cape in the week preceding the Independent’s Tuesday, July 21 deadline included the following, based on a report prepared by Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown this week included…...
Bottlenose Dolphin Stranding Is the ‘Largest Known’
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1313+ words) By Delaney Dryfoos Jul 22, 2026 BREWSTER — Bottlenose dolphins don’t tend to frequent Cape Cod Bay; the toothed whales prefer the deeper waters of the Atlantic on the Cape’s ocean side. But in the early morning of July 13, a pod of 28 to…...
Native Land Conservancy Buys 20 Acres
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (709+ words) By Parker Mumford Jul 15, 2026 “It’s going to be a good crop this year,” said Joanna Buffington, clerk of the Eastham Conservation Foundation (ECF), eyeing a beach plum at the edge of the road as she walked with four employees of…...
Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch Archives
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (789+ words) By Ella Mitchell Jul 8, 2026 PROVINCETOWN — A model fish in one hand and a microphone in the other, naturalist Dennis Minsky can be found most summer days aboard a Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch boat, describing the behavior of whales. That’s exactly…...
Erosion Experiment Approved
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (70+ words) Filed Under: Civics, Featured, News, Towns, Truro By Chet Domitz Apr 15, 2026 By Abraham Storer Apr 15, 2026 By Juliet Leary Apr 15, 2026 By The Independent Staff and contributors Apr 15, 2026 By Antonia DaSilva Apr 15, 2026 By The Independent Apr 15, 2026 By Daniel Dejean Apr 15, 2026 By A. Crock…...