Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, March 5, 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 February 28 and March 5, 2024.

A Townsend’s Solitaire continued at High Head in North Truro this week.

A Painted Bunting was reported from a yard in Dennis on Sunday.

The Western Kingbird and Lark Sparrow continued at the Salt Pond visitor’s center in Eastham this week.

Birds in a complex of cemeteries in Provincetown this weekend included a Snow Goose, a Clay-colored Sparrow, a Chipping Sparrow, and a mixed flock of blackbirds including Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, and 2 Brown-headed Cowbirds.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 5 Harlequin Ducks, a Black Guillemot, 87 Razorbills, a Common Murre, a Glaucous Gull, 7 Iceland Gulls, a Merlin, and 9 Tree Swallows.

Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing Northern Shrike at Crane WMA in Falmouth, 2 Black Vultures in Bourne, a Brown Thrasher and 2 Great Egrets in West Barnstable, a Semipalmated Plover in Hyannis, a Dickcissel and a Blue-winged Teal in Yarmouth Port, a Whimbrel in West Dennis, a Willet and an American Bittern in Chatham, and a Red Crossbill 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].