Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 15, 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 April 8 and April 15, 2025.
A Prothonotary Warbler continued visiting feeders in a neighborhood in Harwich this week, and the Yellow-throated Warbler is still visiting a feeder in Dennis.
The Black-necked Stilt continued in North Chatham.
A Pileated Woodpecker was reported from East Orleans on the 10th.
In Eastham, two Sandhill Cranes were seen flying by the Salt Pond visitor’s center on the 8th and the Pacific Loon continued on Great Pond.
Birds in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon and 3 Common Murres at Race Point; 40 Blue Jays, 20 Golden-crowned Kinglets, 5 Palm Warblers, and 5 Rusty Blackbirds at Beech Forest; and a continuing Harlequin Duck at MacMillan Pier.
At Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich sightings included a Little Blue Heron, a Glossy Ibis, 24 Snowy Egrets, 55 Great Egrets, 11 Lesser Yellowlegs, 28 Greater Yellowlegs, a Pectoral Sandpiper, 27 Osprey, 4 Bald Eagles, and 5 Northern Rough-winged Swallows.
Two Snow Geese continued at Fort Hill in Eastham and other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in West Barnstable, 3 Baltimore Orioles that successfully overwintered in Cummaquid, and a continuing Orange-crowned Warbler in a yard in Brewster.
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].