Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, February 27, 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 February 14 and February 27, 2024.

A Townsend’s Solitaire was photographed at High Head in North Truro this past weekend.

A Tufted Duck has been among the hundreds of Greater and Lesser Scaup at Long Pond in Harwich this week.

The Western Kingbird and Lark Sparrow continued at the Salt Pond visitor’s center in Eastham this week along with an Eastern Phoebe.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Pacific Loons, 2 Thick-billed Murres, 175 Razorbills, 9 Common Murres, a Black Guillemot, a Glaucous Gull, 11 Iceland Gulls, 20 Tree Swallows, and 23 Snow Buntings.

Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Black Vultures in Bourne and 3 more in Sandwich, a Yellow-breasted Chat in Falmouth, a Northern Shrike in Falmouth, a Semipalmated Plover in Hyannis, a Dickcissel in Yarmouth Port, an American Bittern in Chatham, and a Short-eared Owl and 2 Nelson’s Sparrows at Nauset Beach in Orleans.

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].