Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, May 13, 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 7 and May 13, 2025.
Two Swallow-tailed Kites and a Mississippi Kite were seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee this week, where other sightings included a continuing Ring-necked Duck and Tricolored Heron, and two White-eyed Vireos.
A Mississippi Kite was also reported in Brewster on Sunday the 11th.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Little Gull, 300 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Parasitic Jaeger, 45 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, an Iceland Gull, 820 Common Terns, 8 Roseate Terns, a Manx Shearwater, and 250 Northern Gannets.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Blue Grosbeak at Crane WMA in Falmouth plus 2 Worm-eating Warblers elsewhere in Falmouth, 2 Northern Shovelers in Mashpee, a Black-headed Gull at Gray’s Beach in Yarmouth, an American Wigeon in Chatham, a Little Blue Heron at Cold Brook Preserve in Harwich, a Wilson’s Storm-Petrel off Eastham, a Tricolored Heron at Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary, and a Northern Shoveler and a Blue-winged Teal at High Head 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].