Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, January 14, 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 8 and January 14, 2025.

The Ferruginous Hawk reappeared at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included an American Goshawk, 6 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 14 Black-bellied Plovers, 45 Red Knots, 4 Northern Harriers, and a Bald Eagle.

The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week, and a Black-throated blue Warbler visited a hummingbird feeder elsewhere in Provincetown.

An Ash-throated Flycatcher continues in East Falmouth this week, and a Northern Shrike and a Vesper Sparrow continue at nearby at Crane WMA.

Two Pacific Loons were at Race Point in Provincetown this week, along with a Harlequin Duck, 3 Dovekies, 6 Common Murres, a Glaucous Gull, and 13 Iceland Gulls.

Other sightings around the Cape included a female King Eider in the canal near the Sagamore Bridge, an Eastern Phoebe at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a Red-headed Woodpecker in Bourne, single Black-headed Gulls in Cotuit and Chatham, 4 Long-billed Dowitchers in Centerville, a Short-eared Owl at Sandy Neck in Barnstable and another in Bourne, 4 Baltimore Orioles and a Rusty Blackbird in a yard in Cummaquid, a Redpoll in a Barnstable yard, single Orange-crowned Warblers in Barnstable, Brewster, and Wellfleet; a continuing Clay-colored Sparrow in Harwich, and a Canvasback 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].