Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, January 28, 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 22 and January 28, 2025.

The Ferruginous Hawk continued at Morris Island in Chatham, where other sightings included 2 Piping Plovers, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, 58 Black-bellied Plovers, 60 Red Knots, 980 Dunlin, 3 Bald Eagles, and 4 Northern Harriers.

The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 2 Dovekie, 52 Razorbills, 2 Thick-billed Murres, 5 Common Murres, 16 Iceland Gulls, 60 Snow Buntings, and 7 Lapland Longspurs.

Other sightings around the Cape included the continuing female King Eider in the canal near the Sagamore Bridge, 3 Eastern Phoebes in Falmouth, a Rusty Blackbird in Sandwich, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers in Hyannis, a Semipalmated Plover and 11 Purple Sandpipers in Hyannisport, 4 Baltimore Orioles and a Rusty Blackbird in a yard in Cummaquid, 6 Killdeer and a Western Willet in West Dennis, a continuing Clay-colored Sparrow in Harwich, and a Clapper Rail in Brewster.

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].