Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, February 18, 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 February 12 and February 18, 2025. 

A female Tufted Duck continued in Harwich but had moved to Hinckley’s Pond in response to changing ice conditions. 

In Provincetown, the Spotted Towhee continued at the airport, a Sandhill Crane was photographed in the West End marshes, and a Thick-billed Murre has been drawing birders to nearby MacMillan Pier in Provincetown Harbor. 

And Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included at least 3 Pacific Loons, 4 Northern Pintails, 112 Razorbills, 2 Dovekies, 3 Common Murres, 42 Iceland Gulls, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2 Red-necked Grebes, a Great Cormorant, 17 Horned Larks, and 45 Snow Buntings. 

At West Dennis Beach, birds reported this week included 18 Ruddy Turnstones, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, and 2 American Pipits. 

Other sightings around the Cape included the continuing female King Eider on the canal in Bourne, an American Woodcock and a Brown Thrasher in West Barnstable, 4 Baltimore Orioles yard in Cummaquid, an Orange-crowned Warbler in Centerville, 2 Wood Ducks in Orleans, and a Barrow’s Goldeneye in Wellfleet Harbor. 

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].