Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 30, 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 June 24 and June 30, 2026.

Two Brown Pelicans and 2 Royal Terns were reported in Nauset Marsh in Eastham this week.

Single Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in South Sandwich and Cotuit and a Mississippi Kite was reported over Barnstable.

Adult Yellow-crowned Night Herons continue to be around in unprecedented numbers, with 6 in West Barnstable, 3 in Yarmouth, and 3 at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and singles several other places.

Sightings from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Parasitic Jaeger, an Iceland Gull, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, 87 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, 28 Sooty Shearwaters, and 8 Manx Shearwaters.

Three Blue Grosbeaks, 18 Grasshopper Sparrows, and a Yellow-breasted Chat were at Crane WMA in Falmouth, and other sightings around the Cape included a Blue-winged Teal and a Little Blue Heron elsewhere in Falmouth, a continuing Harlequin Duck in Mashpee, a Marbled Godwit in Yarmouth, an Alder Flycatcher at Wing Island in Brewster, up to 4 Chuck-will’s-Widows continuing at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, a Black Guillemot in North Truro, and 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons 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].