Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, June 9, 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 3 and June 9, 2026.
A Hooded Warbler and an Acadian Flycatcher were found in the Long Pond woodlands of Brewster this week.
A Western Kingbird was at Santuit Pond in Mashpee on the 3rd.
A Kentucky Warbler visited a yard in Barnstable on the 8th.
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Pacific Loon, a Thick-billed Murre, a Northern Fulmar, a Little Gull, 58 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 2 Black-headed Gulls, 2 Caspian Terns, 4 Arctic Terns, 2 Forster’s Terns, 5 Sooty Shearwaters, 20 Manx Shearwaters, a Merlin, and a Cliff Swallow.
Bird surveys on Monomoy NWR tallied 2 Northern Pintail, 5 American Oystercatchers, 35 Willets, 400 Ruddy Turnstones, and 39 Red Knots.
Three Chuck-will’s-widows continued at Nauset Light Beach in Eastham, and other sightings around the Cape included 3 Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth, a Red Crossbill in Bourne, a Harlequin Duck and a Veery in Mashpee, a Swallow-tailed Kite in Barnstable and 3 Mississippi Kites in Mashpee, a Black Vulture in Barnstable, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable, 3 Little Blue Heron in West Dennis, a Gadwall in Harwich, a Razorbill and 2 Sooty Shearwaters in Cape Cod Bay off Orleans, and a Blue-headed Vireo in North Truro.
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].