Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 3, 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 May 28 and June 3, 2025.

A Curlew Sandpiper was seen during a shorebird survey at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge this week.

Other sightings at Monomoy included 2 Northern Pintail, 2 Gadwall, 3 Arctic Terns, 8 Glossy Ibis, and a Little Blue Heron.

An incredible five Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee with continuing sightings of birds carrying nesting material.

A Mississippi Kite has been in a neighborhood in Centerville eating cicadas all week.

A Hooded Warbler has been singing in Whelan Conservation Area in West Barnstable.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included up to 3 Little Gulls, 2 Pacific Loons, a Royal Tern, a Caspian Tern, 3 Arctic Terns, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Common Murres,

Other sightings around the Cape included a Yellow-breasted Chat and two Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth, 2 Worm-eating Warblers and 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons elsewhere in Falmouth, a Blue-winged Warbler in Sandwich, single Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in Mashpee and Barnstable, a continuing Ring-necked Duck in Mashpee, a Black-headed Gull and a Whimbrel at Morris Island in Chatham, a Tricolored Heron at Hardings Beach in Chatham, a Lincoln’s Sparrow in Harwich, up to 2 Chuck-will’s-widows and a Common Nighthawk in Eastham, and a Leach’s Storm-Petrel off 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].