Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, January 6, 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 December 31, 2025 and January 6, 2026.
A male King Eider continues among thousands of Common Eiders were in North Chatham.
A Short-eared Owl and a Northern Shrike continue at Crane WMA in Falmouth.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Pacific Loons, 1000 Razorbills, a Dovekie, 7 Iceland Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, 25 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 8 Common Ravens, 19 Horned Larks, and an American Pipit.
Reports from Cold Brook Preserve in Harwich included 5 continuing Northern Shovelers, 4 Northern Pintails, 8 Green-winged Teal, a Bald Eagle, 8 late Tree Swallows, and 5 Field Sparrows.
Highlights from the Truro Christmas Bird Count back on the 2nd included a Lincoln’s Sparrow in the Bound Brook section of Wellfleet, a Nelson’s Sparrow and a Clapper Rail in the Herring River/Great Island sector, a Barrow’s Goldeneye and 2 Northern Pintails in Wellfleet Harbor, single Bohemian Waxwings in a few places, and 220 Yellow-rumped Warblers and a Rusty Blackbird in the High Head sector.
Other sightings around the Cape included up to two continuing Eurasian Wigeon in Yarmouth Port and another in Sandwich, up to 4 Barrow’s Goldeneyes at Loop Beach in Cotuit, a Lincoln’s Sparrow in Centerville, a Black-headed Gull and a Killdeer in Hyannis, a continuing Ovenbird in a yard in Yarmouth, a Killdeer and a Short-eared Owl in Dennis, 2 Evening Grosbeaks in North Chatham, 6 Piping Plovers and a Semipalmated Plover at Morris Island in Chatham, 3 Chipping Sparrows in Harwich, a continuing Dickcissel and Orange-crowned Warbler at different feeders in Orleans, a Baltimore Oriole and a Killdeer in Wellfleet, a Black Vulture in North Truro, and a Thick-billed Murre in Provincetown Harbor.
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].