Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 24, 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 18 and June 24, 2025.
Amazingly, a White Ibis was found eating cicadas around the parking lot of Mashpee High School on the 20th, representing just the second-ever June record for New England.
A rare Say’s Phoebe from the western US was photographed at Bourne Farm in Falmouth, one of just a handful of June/July records for northeastern North America.
A White-winged Dove was briefly seen and heard near Wellfleet Harbor on Sunday.
Single Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee and also increasingly in Cotuit where there were multiple sightings of up to two this week.
Birds at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included an American Kestrel, a Bald Eagle, 4 Blue Grosbeaks, a Yellow-breasted Chat, 6 Eastern Meadowlarks, 26 Grasshopper Sparrows, and 6 Prairie Warblers.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Mississippi Kite, 2 Arctic Terns, 2 Black Terns, 2 Little Gulls, a Glaucous Gull, 7 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and 3 Manx Shearwaters.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Cliff Swallow and 3 Worm-eating Warblers in Falmouth, the lingering Ring-necked Duck in Mashpee, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable and Falmouth, 4 Gadwall in Hyannis, the continuing Chuck-Will’s-widow in Eastham, 2 Forster’s Terns at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary and another in Centerville, and a Green-winged Teal at the 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]