Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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 May 27 and June 2, 2026.
Up to two White Ibis and two White-faced Ibises continued this week in Chatham.
An incredible variety of storm driven birds were turned up during and after Saturday’s storm, including a Ruff at Race Point in Provincetown. Other sightings at Race Point included a Red Phalarope, a South Polar Skua, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, a Long-tailed Jaeger, a Thick-billed Murre, 5 Common Murres, a Little Gull, 2 Iceland Gulls, 40 Arctic Terns, a Pacific Loon, 15 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 3 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, a Northern Fulmar, 15 Great Shearwaters, 32 Sooty Shearwaters, 19 Manx Shearwaters, 500 Northern Gannets, and a Merlin.
Post-storm birds at First Encounter Beach in Eastham on Sunday included a Red Phalarope, 30 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2 Sabine’s Gulls, 25 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 15 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 2 Great Shearwaters, 5 Sooty Shearwaters, 3 Manx Shearwaters, and 550 Northern Gannets.
An amazing number of migrants tallied at the Provincetown airport one morning this week included 2 Black-billed Cuckoos, 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 38 Chimney Swifts, 52 Common Loons, 53 Eastern Kingbirds, 292 Blue Jays, a state record 5795 Cedar Waxwings, 110 Bobolinks, 2 Northern Waterthrush, a Tennessee Warbler, 7 Magnolia Warblers, 9 Blackburnian Warblers, a Chestnut-sided Warbler, 54 Blackpoll Warblers, and 2 Indigo Buntings.
Bird surveys on Monomoy NWR on the 27th tallied a Northern Pintail, a Long-tailed Duck, 5 American Oystercatchers, 125 Black-bellied Plovers, 400 Ruddy Turnstones, 2 Red Knots, 300 Dunlin, 250 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2Black Skimmers, 2500 Common Terns, 34 Glossy Ibis, and 90 Black-crowned Night-Herons.
Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included a Sandhill Crane at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Lesser Scaup and a Harlequin Duck Mashpee, a Swallow-tailed Kite at Santuit Pond in Mashpee, a Black Vulture in Barnstable, a Tricolored Heron in Orleans, an Acadian Flycatcher in Brewster, an American Golden-Plover and 2 Pectoral Sandpipers in Eastham, 300 Dunlin, a White-throated Sparrow and an Olive-sided Flycatcher in Truro, and a Summer Tanager at Beech Forest in Provincetown.
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].