Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 17, 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 11 and June 17, 2025.

Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee, but only singletons were seen this week unlike the 3-5 seen in previous weeks.

There are now at least three Mississippi Kites hanging around a neighborhood in Centerville eating cicadas.

A Hooded Warbler was found at Long Pond in Falmouth on Tuesday.

Birds at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included 3 Blue Grosbeaks, a Yellow-breasted Chat, 2 Brown Thrashers, 10 Eastern Meadowlarks, 5 Orchard Orioles, 17 Field Sparrows, and 20 Grasshopper Sparrows.

Another survey of Monomoy NWR in Chatham produced 2 Northern Shovelers, 3 Black Skimmers, 10 American Oystercatchers, and 14 Glossy Ibis.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Caspian Tern, 2 Arctic Terns, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, 15 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, a Little Gull, a Glaucous Gull, a Sooty Shearwater, 10 Manx Shearwaters, and a Bald Eagle.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in Bourne and two more in Centerville,  the lingering Ring-necked Duck in Mashpee, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak Sandwich, a Black-throated Green Warbler in Mashpee and another in Provincetown, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable, the continuing Chuck-Will’s-widow in Eastham, a Blackpoll Warbler in Truro, and 2 Northern Fulmars off P’town.

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]