Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, April 7, 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 1 and April 7, 2026.
A Swallow-tailed Kite was photographed over Eastham on the 6th, and a Swainson’s Hawk was reported from Camp Edwards on the 7th.
Up to 12 Evening Grosbeaks were visiting feeders in a neighborhood near Skaket Beach in Orlean this week.
A Clay-colored Sparrow is still visiting a yard in Brewster.
A Northern Shrike remains at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth.
Surveys from a ship travelling the waters from the Nantucket Shoals across the Great South Channel to George’s Bank turned up 14 Dovekies, a Thick-billed Murre, a few Atlantic Puffins, and dozens of Red and Red-necked Phalaropes.
Sightings at Bell’s Neck Conservation Area in Harwich included 38 Ring-necked Ducks, 9 Green-winged Teal, a Lesser Yellowlegs, 15 Greater Yellowlegs, a Virginia Rail, 8 Black-crowned Night-Herons, and 3 Great Egrets.
Reports from Race Point in Provincetown include 9 Piping Plovers, 235 Razorbills, a Dovekie, 2 Common Murre, 25 Iceland Gulls, 115 Red-throated Loons, and a Manx Shearwater.
Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallows in Yarmouth, 2 Wilson’s Snipe in Harwich, a Clapper Rail in Wellfleet, an American Bittern 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].