Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, March 12, 2024

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 March 6 and March 12, 2024.

A Bohemian Waxwing continued sporadically in Yarmouth Port this week, mostly keeping company with Cedar Waxwings.

A Townsend’s Solitaire continued at High Head in North Truro this week, and the Lark Sparrow continued at the Salt Pond visitor’s center in Eastham.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, a Black Guillemot, 254 Razorbills, 3 Common Murres, a Dovekie, a Thick-billed Murre, a Glaucous Gull, 25 Iceland Gulls, 25 Horned Larks, and 10 Tree Swallows.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Northern Shrike in Falmouth, a Semipalmated Plover in Hyannis, 2 Black-headed Gulls at Dowses Beach in Osterville, a Great Egret and a Tree Swallow in West Barnstable, a Dickcissel in Yarmouth Port, a Willet in Chatham, an American Bittern in Eastham, 2 Red Crossbills in Wellfleet, a Marsh Wren in North Truro, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet 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].