Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, May 27, 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 21 and May 27, 2025.
An incredible five Swallow-tailed Kites were seen flying and roosting together near Santuit Pond in Mashpee on Memorial Day, with multiple sightings of birds carrying nesting material over the last several days.
A spring Nor’easter brought some nice seabirds within view of bay side beaches late last week, with Race Point in Provincetown sightings including 64 Red Phalaropes, 28 Red-necked Phalaropes, 14 Parasitic Jaegers, 4 Pomarine Jaegers, 5 Common Murres, a Little Gull, 7 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 20 Bonaparte’s Gulls, a Black Tern, 325 Arctic Terns, 1800 Common Terns, 7 Roseate Terns, a Pacific Loon, 9 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 84 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 54 Sooty Shearwaters, 17 Manx Shearwaters, and 1600 Northern Gannets. Four Caspian Terns passed the point on the 26th.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in Falmouth, three Blue Grosbeaks at Crane WMA in Falmouth plus 4 Worm-eating Warblers elsewhere in Falmouth, a Royal Tern in Sandwich, a Black-headed Gull in Mashpee, a Yellow-throated Vireo in Centerville, 2 Black Vultures in Barnstable, a Gray-cheeked Thrush in West Barnstable, a Chuck-will’s-widow in Eastham, single Common Nighthawks in Truro and Falmouth, and a Hooded Warbler in a yard 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].