Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 18, 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 12 and November 18, 2025.

A Townsend’s Solitaire was found along the Herring River in Wellfleet on Sunday.

A Yellow-throated Warbler and two Evening Grosbeaks appeared in the yard of a sharp-eyed resident of Cummaquid this week.

Twelve Cave Swallows were at Nauset Beach in Orleans along with 18 late Barn Swallows and a Little Gull. Single Cave Swallows were seen in Sandwich and Dennis.

A Brown Booby continues between Corporation Beach and Sesuit Harbor in Dennis, where a Little Gull was also seen this week.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Little Gulls, 100 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Pomarine Jaeger, 75 Razorbills, a Common Murre, 1000 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 70 Common Terns, a Cory’s Shearwater, 6 Great Shearwaters, a Manx Shearwater, and 2500 Northern Gannets.

Other sightings around the Cape included a late Red-eyed Vireo in Mashpee, a Cliff Swallow in Osterville, a Grasshopper Sparrow in West Barnstable, single Eurasian Wigeons in Sandwich and Dennis, a Rough-legged Hawk in Dennis, 2 Hudsonian Whimbrel and 2 Western Willets in Chatham, single Lesser Yellowlegs in Wellfleet and Mashpee, and 2 Clapper Rails at the Herring River 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].