Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, March 18, 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 March 12 and March 18, 2025.

The first returning Piping Plovers were spotted this week in Orleans, Hyannis, and Sandwich.

A Black-headed Gull was at Dowse’s Beach in Osterville.

Two Eurasian Wigeon were at Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich and another was at Shawme Pond in Sandwich.

In Provincetown, the long-staying Spotted Towhee continued at the airport and a Thick-billed Murre is still drawing birders to nearby MacMillan Pier in the harbor.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 2 Pacific Loons, an early Manx Shearwater, 52 Razorbills, 4 Common Murres, and 40 Iceland Gulls.

Other sightings around the Cape included 4 Lapland Longspurs in Sandwich, a Semipalmated Plover in West Barnstable, 3 American Pipits in Chatham, a continuing Orange-crowned Warbler in a yard in Brewster, 3 Black Vultures in Orleans, and 3 Barrow’s Goldeneye in Wellfleet 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].