Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 25, 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 19 and November 25, 2025.

A late Ruby-throated or perhaps Black-chinned Hummingbird appeared at a feeder in Cummaquid on the 25th.

A Survey of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied 11 American Oystercatchers, 3 Piping Plovers, 533 Black-bellied Plovers, 113 Red Knots, 249 Sanderlings, and 949 Dunlin, 1040 Northern Gannets, and 110 Tree Swallows.

Elsewhere in Chatham, birds at Forest Beach included 8 American Oystercatchers, 2 Hudsonian Whimbrels, 4 Western Willets, 2 either Long or Short-billed Dowitchers, 25 Greater Yellowlegs, 8 Horned Grebes, and 6 Tree Swallows.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 2 Little Gulls, 1500 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Pomarine Jaeger, a Black Guillemot, 425 Razorbills, 24 Dovekie, 3 Common Murre, 120 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 1200 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 4 Iceland Gulls, 9 Common Terns, a Manx Shearwater, 1800 Northern Gannets, a Merlin, and a Peregrine Falcon.

A birder canvassing the neighborhoods of Provincetown found a nice assortment of songbirds that included a late Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Nashville Warbler, a possible Western Tanager, 7 Purple Finches, 4 Evening Grosbeaks, and 2 Dickcissels.

Other sightings around the Cape included a continuing Red-eyed Vireo in Mashpee, 2 Eurasian Wigeon in Sandwich and one in Dennis, a Dickcissel in Cummaquid, 2 Barn Swallows in Harwich a Nashville Warbler in Orleans, and 16 Eastern Meadowlarks and an Orange-crowned Warbler at Fort Hill 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].