Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, January 21, 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 15 and January 21, 2025.

The Ferruginous Hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included 5 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 40 Red Knots, 350 Sanderlings, and 4 Northern Harriers.

The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week and Northern Shrike and a Vesper Sparrow continue at nearby at Crane WMA.

The Ash-throated Flycatcher continued in East Falmouth this week.

A Pacific Loons was at Race Point in Provincetown this week, along with a Harlequin Duck, a Dovekie, a Black Guillemot, 92 Razorbills, 14 Common Murres, a Glaucous Gull, 40 Iceland Gulls, 60 Snow Buntings, and 2 Lapland Longspurs.

Other sightings around the Cape included the continuing female King Eider in the canal near the Sagamore Bridge, a Rusty Blackbird in Sandwich, a Black-headed Gull in Cotuit, 4 Baltimore Orioles and a Rusty Blackbird in a yard in Cummaquid, single Orange-crowned Warblers several places; a Palm Warbler in Hyannis, 6 Killdeer and a Western Willet in West Dennis, a continuing Clay-colored Sparrow and a Clapper Rail in Harwich, a Rough-legged Hawk in Orleans, a Canvasback in Eastham, 10 Rusty Blackbirds in Wellfleet, and a Thick-billed Murre in Provincetown 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].