Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

The Ferruginous Hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included 2 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 58 Black-bellied Plovers, 60 Red Knots, 980 Dunlin, 3 Bald Eagles, and 4 Northern Harriers. The Spotted Towhee continued [...]

The Ferruginous Hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included 5 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 40 Red Knots, 350 Sanderlings, and 4 Northern Harriers. The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week and Northern Shrike [...]

The Ferruginous Hawk reappeared at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included an American Goshawk, 6 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 14 Black-bellied Plovers, 45 Red Knots, 4 Northern Harriers, and a Bald Eagle. The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport [...]

The Ferruginous Hawk at Morris Island in Chatham was last seen on the 2nd. Other sightings there included 6 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 14 Black-bellied Plovers, 85 Red Knots, 4 Northern Harriers, and a Bald Eagle. The Spotted Towhee and a lingering Prairie Warbler continued at the Provincetown Airport [...]

Massachusetts’s first record of a Ferruginous Hawk was found at Morris Island in Chatham on Sunday. This is only the 5^th record of the species on the entire east coast. An Ash-throated Flycatcher was found [...]

The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week, and the mystery hummingbird of Provincetown has been confirmed as a Black-chinned Hummingbird, only the third ever recorded on Cape Cod. Highlights from Sunday’s Cape Cod Christmas Bird Count, [...]

The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week, and the Western Tanager reappeared along Race Point Road. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, [...]

A Painted Bunting visited a yard in Cummaquid on the 28th. The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week. A continuing Prairie Warbler and [...]

The Cape’s second-ever record of Spotted Towhee was found at the Provincetown Airport on the 16^th. A very rare Pine Grosbeak, two White-winged Crossbills and a late Prairie Warbler were also seen there this week. [...]