Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, December 2, 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 November 26 and December 2, 2025.

A Townsend’s Solitaire was found in Provincetown over the weekend.

A Tufted Duck was at Seymour Pond in Brewster among 1100 Greater and a few Lesser Scaup.

At least two Cave Swallows were at Nauset Beach in Orleans.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Little Gull, a King Eider, 8000 Black Scoters, 1200 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Purple Sandpiper, a Parasitic Jaeger, 350 Razorbills, 6 Dovekies, 2 Common Murres, 200 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 800 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 5 Iceland Gulls, and 70 Snow Buntings.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher in Falmouth, 90 Tree Swallows in Mashpee, 3 Barn Swallows at Dowse’s Beach in Osterville, a continuing Eurasian Wigeon in Sandwich plus another in Wellfleet, 2 Western Willets in Chatham, 4 Dovekies in Wellfleet Harbor and a late Osprey elsewhere in Wellfleet, and a Prairie Warbler on Commercial St 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].