Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Cape Cod Weekly Wildlife Sightings is sponsored by the Bird Watchers General Store in Orleans and Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The following sightings were reported between March 19 and April 1, 2025.

Single Swallow-tailed Kites were seen in Brewster, Yarmouth, and Bourne over the last 10 days.

A Yellow-throated Warbler has been visiting a feeder in Dennis since March 22.

A Black-necked Stilt has been in various wetlands at the west end of Provincetown this week including a horse farm. A Northern Shrike was also at the farm. The long-staying Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown airport.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, 3 Manx Shearwater, 50 Razorbills, 2 Common Murres, 200 Northern Gannets, a Glaucous Gull, and 40 Iceland Gulls.

At Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich sightings included a Little Blue Heron, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 25 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Wilson’s Snipe, 2 Snowy Egrets, 10 Great Egrets, 15 Black-crowned Night-Herons, 7 Osprey, and 3 Bald Eagles.

Other sightings around the Cape included 4 Lapland Longspurs in Sandwich, 2 Black Vultures in Bourne, 2 Purple Martins and a Northern Rough-winged Swallow in Mashpee, 3 overwintering Baltimore Orioles in Cummaquid, a continuing Orange-crowned Warbler in a yard in Brewster, 2 Blue-winged Teal in Harwich plus two more in West Harwich, a Short-eared Owl in Orleans, an American Pipit in Eastham, 3 Black Vultures in Provincetown, a Barrow’s Goldeneye in Wellfleet Harbor, and an early Barn Swallow in Provincetown.

If you have questions about these sightings, or want to report a sighting, call the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615 or send e-mail to [email protected].