Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, July 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 July 23 and July 29, 2025.

At least one Swallow-tailed Kite continues in the Cotuit area this week.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Black Guillemot, a Black Scoter, 22 Piping Plovers, 3 Whimbrel., 1000 Common Terns, 65 Roseate Terns, 80 Cory’s Shearwaters, 9 Great Shearwaters, and 11 Manx Shearwaters.

Surveys of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied 2 Green-winged Teal, 5 Ruddy Ducks, 6 Gadwall, 15 American Oystercatchers, 45 Red Knots, 8 Hudsonian Godwits, 900 Short-billed Dowitchers, 450 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 Black Skimmers, and 4 Pied-billed Grebes.

Birds at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary this week included an American Golden-Plover, a Clapper Rail, 20 Whimbrel, a Hudsonian Godwit, 5 Forster’s Tern, 5 Cory’s Shearwaters, a Black-crowned Night-Heron, a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron and 4 Green Herons.

Other sightings around the Cape included 2 Blue Grosbeaks in Falmouth; a Leach’s Storm-Petrel off Barnstable, a Glaucous Gull, a Little Blue Heron, and 2 Black Skimmers in Chatham; and at least one endlessly continuing Chuck-Will’s-widow in Eastham.

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]