Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 8, 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 2 and April 8, 2025.
A Prothonotary Warbler visited feeders at a house in Harwich this week, and the Yellow-throated Warbler is still visiting a feeder in Dennis.
A Pacific Loon was found on Great Pond in Eastham on the 6th, a very rare appearance for this species on freshwater, and rare anywhere away from Provincetown.
A Black-necked Stilt was found in North Chatham, perhaps the same bird that was in Provincetown last week.
Small groups of Snow Geese touched down on the Outer Cape in recent days, including 8 in South Wellfleet and 6 in South Orleans.
Birds in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon and 2 Manx Shearwaters at Race Point; 2 Northern Pintails, 13 Wood Ducks, 25 Golden-crowned Kinglets and 40 Yellow-rumped Warblers at Beech Forest; and a Harlequin Duck at MacMillan Pier.
At Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich sightings included a Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 20 Osprey, 2 Bald Eagles, 25 Black-crowned Night-Herons, and a Barn Swallow.
The long-staying Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown airport, and other sightings around the Cape included at least one continuing Lapland Longspur in Sandwich, 2 Black Vultures in Bourne and another in Truro, a Northern Rough-winged Swallow in Mashpee, 3 Baltimore Orioles that successfully overwintered in Cummaquid, a continuing Orange-crowned Warbler in a yard in Brewster, 2 Blue-winged Teal and 3 Glossy Ibis at Cold Brook Preserve in Harwich, and a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Fort Hill in Eastham.
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].