Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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 23 and April 29, 2025.
A Swallow-tailed Kite was seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee on the 25th and 28th, and maybe the same one was also seen from West Barnstable on the 28th. This area of the Cape has had annual spring and summer resident Swallow-tailed Kites for several years, so expect more sightings.
Continuing rarities included the Black-necked Stilt in North Chatham, and the Pacific Loon on Great Pond in Eastham.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, 50 unidentified phalaropes, a Parasitic Jaeger, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 5 Iceland Gulls, 2 Common Terns, 2 American Kestrels, a Merlin, and 17 Broad-winged Hawks.
At Bell’s Neck conservation area in West Harwich sightings included 2 Little Blue Herons, 6 Least Sandpiper, a Pectoral Sandpiper, 79 Greater Yellowlegs, 12 Lesser Yellowlegs, 5 Glossy Ibis, 64 Snowy Egrets, and 19 Great Egrets.
A Black-headed Gull was in Osterville and other sightings around the Cape included 4 late American Tree Sparrows in Falmouth, an early Least Tern in Mashpee, a Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable, a Black Guillemot in Harwich, a continuing Orange-crowned Warbler in a yard in Brewster, an American Golden-Plover at Nauset Beach, an Orchard Oriole in Eastham, a Barrow’s Goldeneye in Wellfleet Harbor, a Red Crossbill in North Truro, and a Black Vulture in Provincetown.
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].