Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, July 1, 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 June 25 and July 1, 2025.

At least three Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee and around Cotuit where there were multiple sightings of up to three again this week.

Three Mississippi Kites were back in the Centerville neighborhood where they had been feeding on cicadas for a few weeks, and a single bird was at Santuit Pond in Mashpee.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included an American Golden-Plover, a South Polar Skua, a Sandwich Tern, a Royal Tern, a Glaucous Gull, 2 Little Gulls, 2 Black Guillemots, 2 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 7 Cory’s Shearwaters, 2 Great Shearwaters, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 7 Manx Shearwaters, a Tricolored Heron, and 9 Horned Larks.

Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Worm-eating Warblers in Falmouth, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable and singles in Chatham and Eastham, a Black Vulture in West Barnstable,  2 Black Skimmers and 9 American Oystercatchers at Forest Beach in Chatham, a Northern Pintail and 15 Glossy Ibis at Monomoy NWR in Chatham, a Glaucous Gull in Orleans, two Chuck-Will’s-widows in Eastham, and 2 Black-billed Cuckoos at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary.

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]