Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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 April 8 and April 14, 2026.

Two Swallow-tailed Kites were reported over Mashpee on the 10th.

A Clay-colored Sparrow is still visiting a yard in Brewster.

Continuing surveys from a ship travelling the waters around the Cape produced a Thick-billed Murre, 2 Common Murres, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, and a Glaucous Gull this week.

At the Beech Forest in Provincetown migrants included 2 Green-winged Teal, a Common Goldeneye, a Virginia Rail, a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 Barn Swallows, 3 Rusty Blackbirds, 2 Purple Finches, 30 Yellow-rumped Warblers, and 2 Palm Warblers.

Reports from Race Point in Provincetown include a Pacific Loon, 2 American Oystercatchers, 9 Piping Plovers, 177 Razorbills, a Common Murre, 2 Black Guillemots, a Glaucous Gull, 19 Iceland Gulls, 425 Red-throated Loons, and a Black Vulture.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in Bourne, the first Purple Martins in Mashpee and Wellfleet, a continuing Brown Thrasher in Brewster, an Orange-crowned Warbler in Harwich, and an American Wigeon and 2 Northern Pintail in Chatham.

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].