Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 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 October 30 and November 5, 2024.

A Western Tanager was discovered at a private home in Provincetown over the weekend.

Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a King Eider, a Harlequin Duck, 200 Black-bellied Plovers, an American Golden-Plover, a Parasitic Jaeger, 17 Pomarine Jaegers, 265 Razorbills, a Dovekie, 2 Pacific Loons, 50 Red-throated Loons, 30 Common Loons, 250 Cory’s Shearwaters, 125 Great Shearwaters, 6700 Northern Gannets, and a Short-eared Owl.

A visit to Fort Hill in Eastham turned up an American Woodcock, a Blue-headed Vireo, 2 Brown Thrashers, 15 American Pipits, 6 Purple Finches, 8 Pine Siskins, a Yellow-breasted Chat, a Black-and-white Warbler, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers, an American Redstart, a Black-throated Blue Warbler, and a Dickcissel.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Snowy Egret in Hyannis, a late Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Cummaquid, 3 Willets and a Marbled Godwit in Chatham, a Western Kingbird in Orleans, and a Black-throated Green Warbler and a Baltimore Oriole at High Head in Truro.

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].