Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, February 4, 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 January 29 and February 4, 2025.

The Ferruginous Hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included a Semipalmated Plover, 12 Black-bellied Plovers, 200 Dunlin, and 8 Northern Harriers.

The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Short-eared Owl, a Pacific Loon, 120 Razorbills, a Black Guillemot, 5 Common Murres, 36 Iceland Gulls, 60 Snow Buntings, and 17 Lapland Longspurs.

Other sightings around the Cape included the continuing female King Eider in the canal near the Sagamore Bridge, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers in Hyannis, a Semipalmated Plover  8 Purple Sandpipers and an American Pipit in Hyannisport, 4 Baltimore Orioles yard in Cummaquid, a Western Willet in West Dennis, a continuing Clay-colored Sparrow in Harwich, a Clapper Rail and 6 Bald Eagles in Harwich, 2 Wood Ducks in Orleans, an American Bittern at Fort Hill in Eastham, 2 Barrow’s Goldeneyes and a Fox Sparrow in Wellfleet, and a Lark Sparrow in North Truro.

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].