Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Below are the most recent sightings from the last four weeks in the Cape Cod area.
If you want to report a sighting, or have questions about these sightings, call Wellfleet Bay at 508-349-2615 or send an email.
The Cape Cod Natural History Hotline is sponsored by the Bird Watcher's General Store in Orleans and Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
Recent Sightings
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
An out of season Red-necked Grebe and 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons were at Forest Beach in Chatham. A Chuck-will’s-Widow was calling near Nauset Light Beach in Eastham on the 12th. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Royal Tern, 11 Piping Plovers, [...]
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
A Brown Booby was seen at Stellwagen Bank from a whale watch boat this week. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Whimbrel, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, an Arctic Tern, [...]
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Royal Terns, 2 Red Knots, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, 10 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 20 Roseate Terns, 3 Arctic Terns, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, 1500 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, [...]
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Continued reports from Sandwich indicate that, for the second year in a row, at least one Swallow-tailed Kite has settled into the Upper Cape for the summer. The most recent sighting [...]
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Another Swallow-tailed Kite was photographed in Sandwich this week and a Mississippi Kite was reported from Eastham. A Dickcissel was photographed at Crane WMA in Falmouth, [...]
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
A White-winged Dove has been at a private feeder in Sandwich this week. A Franklin’s Gull was photographed at Race Point in Provincetown on the 9th. A Swallow-tailed Kite was reported from Sandwich [...]
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
A Hooded Warbler was still at Mass Audubon’s Skunknett River sanctuary as recently as the 2nd and an Acadian Flycatcher was found in Mashpee on the 6th. Birds blown in over the weekend at Race Point in Provincetown [...]