Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

A Loggerhead Shrike was at Forest Beach in Chatham on the 11th and 12th. A Brown Pelican has been spotted various places including the bay side of Wellfleet [...]

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Caspian Tern, a Sabine’s Gull, a Pacific Loon, 9 Whimbrels, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 150 Roseate Terns, [...]

A Brown Booby was seen at Race Point in Provincetown on the 28th, and other reports from the Race this week included a Pacific Loon, 4 Red Knots, 2 Whimbrels, [...]

A Wood Stork was found in a recently cleared area along the Hering River in Wellfleet over the weekend, representing just the third Cape Cod record of this species. A Hooded Warbler [...]

A Swallow-tailed Kite was reported at Santuit Pond in Mashpee this week and a Mississippi Kite was reported from Harwich. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included [...]

An Atlantic Puffin and 3 Long-tailed Jaegers were seen at Race Point in Provincetown over the weekend along with a Pacific Loon, a Black Tern, 315 Roseate Terns, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 400 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 17 Cory’s Shearwaters, 75 Great Shearwaters, [...]

Two Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in Forestdale this week and a single bird was seen in East Sandwich. A breeding plumage Pacific Loon was off Coast Guard Beach [...]

Four Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks spent the evening at Pogorelc Sanctuary in Barnstable on the 26th. Single Swallow-tailed Kites were reported [...]

Single Mississippi Kites were seen over Rt. 28 in Mashpee and Cotuit on the 16th and 17th. Birds noted during shorebird surveys in various parts of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge included an Iceland Gull,  [...]