Wellfleet

Finely J.P.'s 554 Route 6 508-349-7500 www.capecodchefs.com The Beachcomber 1120 Cahoon Hollow Road 508-349-6055 www.thebeachcomber.com Mac's Shack 91 Commercial St. 508-349-6333 www.macsseafood.com The Bookstore & Restaurant 50 Kendrick Ave. 50 8-349-3154 www.wellfleetoyster.com The Wicked Oyster 50 Main St. 508-349-3455 ...

Recent bird sightings on Cape Cod (as of May 16) as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Mass Audubon's annual Bird-a-thon fund-raiser was held, bringing birders from all over the state to the Cape in hopes of big species lists. One of the highlights was a sandhill crane seen by many teams at both the Beech Forest in Provincetown and the Pilgrim Heights hawk watch. Lots of night birding produced many secretive owls and rails, including clapper rails in Wellfleet, Brewster, and Harwich, Virginia rails in many locations, a sora in Chatham, and Northern saw-whet owls in several...

Authorities say a 70-year-old Wellfleet man has been flown to a Boston hospital after being injured by a falling tree at his home. Fire department officials tell the Cape Cod Times (http://bit.ly/uKQ9wX) the man was cutting a roughly 40-foot-high tree on Sunday when it fell onto his house. The man, working on getting the tree off the house, was then seriously injured when the tree snapped and landed on his lower body around 1 p.m. His name was not made public. Friends were able to lift the tree off him by the time rescue crews arrived.

I'm sorry, but is there any city anywhere where people do self-loathing as completely and beautifully as your fellow Bostonians? Visit Gary, Ind., and the good citizenry will look around at the belching smokestacks and the meteoric murder rate and declare: "We're on the way back!" Soulless places like Houston and Atlanta regard themselves as God's chosen corners. In Boston, forget about the major universities and world-class hospitals, the fact that the Cape and the mountains are a 90-minute drive, and a history richer than any other in America.

WELLFLEET - It's shortly after sunrise, and my wife is lying on her back, staring at a mourning dove that is perched on the skylight above our bed and peering down at us curiously. I slumber through this game. I need to be well rested for a summertime stay at Surfside Cottages, with energy enough to loll in the cold waves, eat succulent clams, that sort of thing. Surfside is a condo association with two dozen cottages to rent, most in Wellfleet with a smattering in Eastham. While summer, sadly, is taking its leave, booking a Cape stay in the crimson-leaf season will lower your rates.

WELLFLEET — Along a stretch of Route 6 dotted with saltbox cottages and eateries serving lobster rolls and broiled scallops, sits a slightly out-of-place French bakery and restaurant. PB Boulangerie Bistro was opened in April by French natives Philippe Rispoli, 37, and Boris Villatte, 31 (PB is for their first names). The bakery sells close to 250 baguettes and 1,500 plain, chocolate, and almond croissants each day; dozens more loaves such as fig, olive, sourdough, multigrain, and brioche; sublime croque monsieurs, and assorted...

Authorities say an 80-year-old man has been found dead at his Wellfleet home apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning. Emergency workers went to the man's remote home on Thursday after being asked to make a well-being check because he did not show up for an appointment. The death remains under investigation but does not appear suspicious and does not appear connected to last weekend's nor'easter. The state medical examiner's office is scheduled to perform an autopsy to determine a cause of death.

WELLFLEET - We liked Eleanor Stefani even before we met her. "Check in any time you want," she had told us on the phone when we booked a stay at The Colony. "We're not a commercial place. We don't run by the clock. " When we did arrive shortly after noon on a July day, she was industriously trimming the shrubs in her garden. She took off her work gloves to greet us and talk about her favorite subject: the little cluster of Bauhaus-style summer cottages she has owned since 1963.

WELLFLEET -- The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater spent the weekend opening its shiny new house, the Julie Harris Stage on Route 6, with a play appropriately focused on chaos and order, endings and beginnings, loss and jokes: Sarah Ruhl's 2005 Pulitzer finalist, "The Clean House. " A company that can build a beautiful new theater while maintaining its commitment to the grungy, beloved harborside shack where it began clearly knows a thing or two about that kind of balance. On Saturday's gala opening night, which featured a...

On the 28th day of the largest single-species stranding event on record in the northeastern United States, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said one more dolphin stranded itself yesterday in Wellfleet, bringing the total of stranded common dolphins to 147. Michael Booth, spokesman for the animal welfare organization, said crews rescued the dolphin from the banks of the Herring River in Wellfleet yesterday morning. Two other dolphins were seen swimming in the area. "They were debating what to do with the two swimming,...

At least 10 more dolphins stranded themselves on the beaches of Cape Cod this week, a Cape-based animal welfare group said. The strandings raised the annual total to more than 200 in just three months, an unusually high number that has left scientists scrambling to find a cause. "This week we had 10 common dolphins strand in various locations including Brewster, Wellfleet, and Orleans," Michael Booth, spokesman for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said. "We had four strand on Monday – one in Wellfleet and three in Brewster.

WELLFLEET - Over the past five weeks, 178 dolphins have stranded on Cape Cod. Most have been found dead, but the painstaking process of tending, hauling, and releasing the live ones is exacting a physical and emotional toll that grows greater every day. It is a toll made all the heavier because the reasons for the strandings remain a mystery. Despite all the blood samples, the necropsies, and what will be a mountain of new data on the animals, known as common dolphins, researchers have no answers for the strandings, the largest involving a single species in the Northeast in at...

WELLFLEET - Eleven more dolphins were discovered beached on Cape Cod yesterday, bringing the tally of grounded dolphins to 177 since Jan. 12 in the largest single-species stranding ever reported here. Rescue workers and volunteers rushed to the Herring River, near Wellfleet Harbor, after the dolphins were spotted about 7:30 a.m., nearly immobilized atop shin-deep muck in a lowering tide. Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare and volunteers found 10 of the dolphins alive, took blood samples, and enlisted the waterborne help of the...

The animal welfare organization that helped about 300 dolphins swim out of Wellfleet cqharbor Thursday said today those dolphins, tracked by satellite collars on a handful of the marine mammals, are far enough away from the harbor that they are not in immediate danger. On Thursday, the International Fund for Animal Welfarecq and local harbor masters herded hundreds of dolphinscq out of the harbor, where they may have been in danger of stranding themselves. The group, which rescued and released five stranded dolphins Thursday, said they are standing by,...

WELLFLEET - Over the past five weeks, 178 dolphins have stranded on Cape Cod. Most have been found dead, but the painstaking process of tending, hauling, and releasing the live ones is exacting a physical and emotional toll that grows greater every day. It is a toll made all the heavier because the reasons for the strandings remain a mystery. Despite all the blood samples, the necropsies, and what will be a mountain of new data on the animals, known as common dolphins, researchers have no answers for the strandings, the largest involving a single species in the Northeast in at...