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 May 1 and May 7, 2024.
A Swallow-tailed Kite was seen in Sandwich on the Monday the 6th.
Sightings in Mashpee included a Hooded Warbler, 2 Blue-winged Teal, and 2 Lesser Scaup at Santuit Pond, and a Yellow-crowned Night Heron at South Cape Beach.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 400 Red-breasted Mergansers, 750 Laughing Gulls, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, and Iceland Gull, a Razorbill, and a Manx Shearwater.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in Bourne, a Vesper Sparrow, a Summer Tanager, and 12 Red Crossbills in Falmouth, a Chuck-will’s-widow at Camp Edwards, 2 Lesser Scaup in Mashpee, 2 Ring-necked Ducks and a Black Brant in Barnstable, a Red Knot in Dennis, 2 American Wigeon, a Pied-billed Grebe, and a Blue Grosbeak in Chatham, and 450 Red-throated Loons in Orleans.
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 cape.sightings@massaudubon.org.