Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, July 8, 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 2 and July 8, 2025.

A Brown Booby passed Race Point in Provincetown on Saturday.

Other sightings at Race Point included a surprise Atlantic Puffin flyby, a Little Gull, a Black Tern, a Glaucous Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 24 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 58 Cory’s Shearwaters, 2 Great Shearwaters, 4 Sooty Shearwaters, and 9 Manx Shearwaters.

A new state record 6 Swallow-tailed Kites were seen near the Cotuit Center for the Arts this week, as well as 2 Mississippi Kites.

A Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, a Cory’s Shearwater, and 2 Great Shearwater were at Great Island in Wellfleet, and at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary birders reported a Clapper Rail, 4 Whimbrels, 5 Short-billed Dowitchers, and 2 Orchard Orioles.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Tricolored Heron in Woods Hole, a Caspian Tern and 3 Blue Grosbeaks elsewhere in Falmouth, 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in Barnstable Harbor, a Veery singing in West Barnstable, 2 Black Vultures in Hyannis and one in Provincetown, a Forster’s Tern and 2 Black Skimmers in Chatham, and at least one 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]