Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, March 4, 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 February 26 and March 4, 2025.
A Bohemian Waxwing was found in Brewster on the 26th.
Single, early Tree Swallows and Eastern Phoebes were seen in various Upper Cape locations over the last week.
In Provincetown, the long-staying Spotted Towhee continued at the airport, a Sandhill Crane continued in the West End marshes, and a Thick-billed Murre is still drawing birders to nearby MacMillan Pier in Provincetown Harbor.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 2 Pacific Loons, 15 Black-bellied Plovers, 2 Black Guillemots, 7 Common Murres, a Dovekie, 65 Razorbills, 25 Iceland Gulls, 25 Horned Larks, 50 Snow Buntings and 14 Lapland Longspurs.
Two Semipalmated Plovers, a Killdeer, and an American Pipit were at Forte’s Beach in Hyannis Port.
Other sightings around the Cape included 4 Baltimore Orioles continuing in a yard in Cummaquid, 2 Barrow’s Goldeneye in Cotuit, a Willet in West Dennis, single Black-headed Gulls in Osterville and Eastham, a Dickcissel in Dennis, a continuing Orange-crowned Warbler in a yard in Brewster, and 6 American Pipits 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].