News & Events
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Join us this fall and winter for sociable and educational bird talks! Warm beverages and sweet treats will be provided. Next program is January 10.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Wellfleet Bay invites researchers to submit proposals to present at the 24th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference. The deadline for submissions is December 21, 2018.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Cape Cod's sea turtle stranding season started earlier than usual this fall, and so far we've rescued well over 600 cold-stunned turtles! It's our second biggest year ever.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
Fourth graders from Harwich and Chatham are taking part in a one-year curriculum that combines in-class lessons with real field experiences and a chance to watch bird researchers at work—all thanks to a new Wellfleet Bay program.
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
This year’s Wild, Wild Wellfleet! fundraiser was a sold-out event and, truly, a wild success! We'd like to extend our most sincere thanks to everyone who made the chef's tasting and auction possible.
The idea that this fall’s cold-stun sea turtle period could be a memorable one occurred to us when turtles began stranding about 2 weeks earlier than usual, in mid-October. Only days before rescuing our first cold, immobile turtles, we’d found several live, swimming turtles out at sea—a pretty unusual occurrence. Our marine life cruise off […]
After a dog disrupted the overwintering process of an eastern box turtle hatchling last week, we were faced with the dilemma of how to put him/her back and allow natural overwintering or brumation to take place. I tried to research methods others have used to introduce hatchlings into late season brumation, but couldn’t find out […]