Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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 13 and March 19, 2024.

The first Ospreys, Piping Plovers, and American Oystercatchers were reported this week, a few days ahead of schedule.

The Bohemian Waxwing continued sporadically in Yarmouth Port this week, mostly keeping company with Cedar Waxwings.

A Townsend’s Solitaire continued at High Head in North Truro, where other sightings included a very early Purple Martin, 3 Common Ravens, a Marsh Wren, 5 Gray Catbirds, a Brown Thrasher, a Common Yellowthroat, and 50 Yellow-rumped Warblers.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 4 Piping Plovers, 2 American Oystercatchers, 537 Razorbill, 16 Common Murres, a Thick-billed Murre, 2 Dovekies, a Glaucous Gull, 5 Iceland Gulls, 156 Red-throated Loons, and an early Barn Swallow.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Northern Shrike and a Brown Thrasher in Falmouth, a Great Egret in Mashpee and up to two in West Barnstable, an American Bittern and a Willet in West Harwich, a Willet and a Lesser Yellowlegs in Chatham, 2 Barn Swallows at Monomoy NWR, and a Lincoln’s Sparrow in Wellfleet.

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].