Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 11, 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 November 5 and November 11, 2025.

A Brown Booby continues between Corporation Beach and Sesuit Harbor in Dennis.

The Gray Kingbird at Fort Hill in Eastham was not seen again after the 4^th, but an Ash-throated Flycatcher was reported there on the 5^th.

Single Cave Swallows were reported from several locations from Dennis to Provincetown.

Evening Grosbeaks have been seen various places this week as singles and in flocks of up to 5 birds, including at feeders in Wellfleet and Provincetown.

Sightings at Cold Brook Preserve in Harwich included 6 Northern Shovelers, 5 Northern Pintail, a Northern House Wren, a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and a Clay-colored Sparrow.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Cave Swallow, a King Eider, a Pacific Loon, a Black-headed Gull, 4 Little Gulls, 2 American Golden-Plovers, a Semipalmated Plover, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Red Knot, 200 Long-tailed Ducks, 74 Razorbills, a Common Murre, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 800 Bonaparte’s Gulls, an Iceland Gull, 15 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2 Forster’s Terns, 120 Common Terns, 4 Cory’s Shearwaters, 30 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, 5 Manx Shearwater, 1400 Northern Gannets, a Bald Eagle, and 600 Tree Swallows.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Long-eared Owl in Yarmouth, single Short-eared Owls in Dennis and Provincetown, 2 Hudsonian Whimbrel and a Marbled Godwit in Chatham, a Rough-legged Hawk at Nauset Beach, and a Northern Parula and a Spotted Sandpiper in Eastham.

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].