Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 28, 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 21 and April 28, 2026.
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, an American Oystercatcher, a King Eider, 3 Razorbills, 2 Black Guillemots, a Black-headed Gull, a Glaucous Gull, 700 Laughing Gulls, 19 Iceland Gulls, 90 Common Loons, 4 Manx Shearwaters, an American Kestrel, a Merlin,
Early migrants this week included Yellow Warblers and Ovenbirds various places, a Prairie Warbler at the Beech Forest in Provincetown, and a Common Yellowthroat in Harwich.
Shorebirds at Monomoy NWR in Chatham included 6 American Oystercatchers, 300 Black-bellied Plovers, 16 Red Knots, and 1000 Dunlin.
Other sightings around the Cape included 16 Willets in Bourne, 3 Roseate Terns and 30 Common Terns in Falmouth, a Grasshopper Sparrow at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Worm-eating Warbler at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, a Black Vulture in Hyannis plus another in Harwich, and a hybrid Gadwall x American Wigeon 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].