Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 10, 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 4 and June 10, 2025.

At least 3 Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee.

A Mississippi Kite continues in a neighborhood in Centerville.

The Hooded Warbler continues in Whelan Conservation Area in West Barnstable, where a Mississippi Kite was also seen.

Early June is when we see interesting flycatchers on the Cape, and this week produced an Acadian Flycatcher in Barnstable, and an Alder Flycatcher in Mashpee, plus an Olive-sided Flycatcher at Crane WMA.

Other birds at Crane included 3 Blue Grosbeaks, a Yellow-breasted Chat, a Dickcissel, a Clay-colored Sparrow, and 24 Grasshopper Sparrows.

Another survey of Monomoy NWR in Chatham produced 4 Gadwall, 2 Northern Pintail, a Barn Owl, a Black Skimmer, 10,000 Common Terns, and 200 Ruddy Turnstones.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a very rare Franklin’s Gull, a King Eider, 2 Common Murres, 2 Little Gulls, 17 Roseate Terns, a Sooty Shearwater, and 6 Manx Shearwaters.

Other sightings around the Cape included the lingering Ring-necked Duck in Mashpee, single Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in Mashpee and Sandwich, a Blue-winged Warbler and a Black-throated Green Warbler in Sandwich, a Forster’s Tern in Osterville, 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable and two more in Falmouth, the continuing Chuck-Will’s-widow in Eastham, 2 Common Nighthawks in Truro, and 2 Northern Fulmars from a whale watch boat over Stellwagen Bank.

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]