Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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 24 and April 30, 2024.

On Monday a Kentucky Warbler was reported from Mashpee and a Caspian Tern was seen in East Sandwich.

Widespread new spring arrivals this week included Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Gray Catbirds, Great-crested Flycatchers, House Wrens, and Yellow Warblers. Common and Roseate Terns are also now arriving at breeding colonies.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Parasitic Jaeger, a Common Murre, 42 Razorbills, 2 Iceland Gulls, 2 Manx Shearwaters, and 7 Broad-winged Hawks.

Birds at the Beech Forest in Provincetown last week included a Blue Grosbeak, 4 Wood Ducks, a Spotted Sandpiper, a Wilson’s Snipe, 2 Virginia Rails, a White-eyed Vireo, 12 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 2 Eastern Kingbirds, 3 Pine Siskins, 2 Rusty Blackbirds, and 100 Yellow-rumped Warblers.

Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing Thick-billed Murre in Woods Hole, a Cattle Egret in Falmouth, a Sora at Camp Edwards, single Black Vultures in Bourne and Centerville, Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in Mashpee and Harwich, 2 Little Blue Herons in Mashpee and one Chatham, and 2 American Wigeon also in Chatham.

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].