Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 10, 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 November 4 and November 10, 2026.

Likely the same Crested Caracara that was in Wellfleet earlier in the fall has been rediscovered at Morris Island in Chatham.

Thousands of seabirds continued in southeastern Cape Cod Bay this week to feed on massive schools of Atlantic saury, including 5 species of gulls, Northern Gannets, and Cory’s Shearwaters.

The Sedge Wren was last reported from Nauset Marsh in Eastham on the 4th.

At least one White-winged Crossbill continued near the gatehouse at Sandy Neck in Barnstable.

Birds seen at Race Point in Provincetown included a Snow Goose, 2 Pacific Loons, 5 American Golden-Plovers, a Pectoral Sandpiper, 3 Purple Sandpipers, 4 Parasitic Jaeger, 54 Razorbills, a Dovekie, a Common Murre, 64 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 250 Bonaparte’s Gulls, a Little Gull, an Iceland Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, a Red-necked Grebe, 150 Cory’s Shearwaters, 56 Great Shearwaters, a Manx Shearwater, 1200 Northern Gannets, 800 Tree Swallows, 35 Horned Larks, and a Lapland Longspur.

At least 13 Marbled Godwits, 6 Prairie Willets, and a Whimbrel continue at Forest Beach in Chatham, and other sightings around the Cape included a Cape May Warbler at Coonamessett Pond in Falmouth, a Black Vulture and a Snowy Egret in Eastham, a Black-and-white Warbler at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and a Long-billed and 3 Short-billed Dowitchers at Fox Island in Wellfleet.

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].