Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

Three Mississippi Kites were seen over North Truro on the 14th and single Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in Marstons Mills and Cotuit. Birds reported at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included 2 Dickcissels, a Yellow-breasted Chat and 2 Blue Grosbeaks. Sightings from Wood End to Race Point in Provincetown this week included [...]

Three Mississippi Kites were seen over North Truro on the 14th and single Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in Marstons Mills and Cotuit. Birds reported at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included 2 Dickcissels, a Yellow-breasted Chat and 2 Blue Grosbeaks. Sightings from Wood End to Race Point in Provincetown this week included [...]

A Hooded Warbler and an Acadian Flycatcher were found in the Long Pond woodlands of Brewster this week. A Western Kingbird was at Santuit Pond in Mashpee on the 3rd. A Kentucky Warbler visited a yard in Barnstable on the 8th. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, a Thick-billed Murre, [...]

Up to two White Ibis and two White-faced Ibises continued this week in Chatham. An incredible variety of storm driven birds were turned up during and after Saturday’s storm, including a Ruff at Race Point in Provincetown. Other sightings at Race Point included a Red Phalarope, a South Polar Skua, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, a Long-tailed Jaeger, a Thick-billed Murre,  [...]

A Chestnut-collared Longspur was found at Crosby Beach in Brewster on the 22nd, representing the 5th Cape and Islands record of this bird of vast western prairies. At least one White Ibis continued this week in Chatham, where it was joined by up to two even more rare White-faced Ibises, [...]

There was an invasion of White Ibises into the region over the weekend, with 22 seen first in Sandwich then later in Hyannis and Provincetown, 6 in West Harwich, one in Chatham, and another in Mashpee. The previous state high count was 5 from last year. A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was found at Peterson Farm in Falmouth on Tuesday. Single Mississippi Kites were seen in Provincetown, Chatham, [...]

A Gull-billed Tern was reported in Mashpee on the 9th. Two Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in South Sandwich and singles were reported from Mashpee to Marstons Mills. Three Chuck-will’s-widows are back for another season by Nauset Light Beach in Eastham. Single Summer Tanagers were reported in a few places, [...]

A Prothonotary Warbler was found at Mass Audubon’s Barnstable Great Marsh property in Barnstable and a Hooded Warbler was found at Fort Hill in Eastham on Tuesday. The Pileated Woodpecker discovered in Ryder Conservation Land and in adjacent Lowell-Holly Reservation in South Sandwich and Mashpee was last reported [...]

A Pileated Woodpecker was discovered in Ryder Conservation Land and in adjacent Lowell-Holly Reservation in South Sandwich and Mashpee on Sunday, continuing into at least Monday. A Swallow-tailed Kite was reported over Mashpee on the 26th and 27th. Reports from Race Point in Provincetown include 2 Pacific Loons, 1000 Red-breasted Mergansers, [...]