Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 9, 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 3 and April 9, 2024.

An early Summer Tanager visited a yard in Chatham on Friday, while a yard in Eastham has been hosting an early Indigo Bunting and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

A Black Brant was photographed in Sandwich this week.

At least 3 Black-headed Gulls continue on various beaches between Osterville and Hyannis.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Manx Shearwater, 60 Razorbills, 4 Common Murres, 5 Iceland Gulls, 125 Red-throated Loons, 225 Northern Gannets, and a Common Raven.

At Bell’s Neck conservation area on West Harwich, sightings this week included a Northern Pintail, 27 Green-winged Teal, 4 Blue-winged Teal, 21 Black-crowned Night-Herons, a Clapper Rail, 25 Ospreys, and an early Ovenbird.

A Western Kingbird continues in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in West Barnstable, a continuing Dickcissel in Yarmouth Port, an Orange-crowned Warbler in Chatham, an odd sighting of a Sora on roof top in Provincetown, and several reports of early Purple Martins including 2 in Mashpee and 3 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].