Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 3, 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 October 28 and November 3, 2026.
Many thousands of seabirds have been crowded into southeastern Cape Cod Bay this week to feed on massive schools of Atlantic saury, including over 3000 Northern Gannets and at least 5000 gulls of various species, plus at least 1000 Cory’s Shearwaters and a few Parasitic and Pomarine Jaegers.
A Sedge Wren continued at Nauset Marsh in Eastham this week. Other species there included a Hudsonian Godwit, 84 Semipalmated Plovers, 500 Dunlin, an American Pipit, and 4 Pine Siskins.
Two Redheads have been on Scargo Lake in Dennis since last week.
At least 4 White-winged Crossbills continue near the gatehouse at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, with pairs reported from Rock Harbor in Orleans and also North Truro.
A survey of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge on the 28th tallied 200 American Black Ducks, 1205 Black-bellied Plovers, 58 Semipalmated Plovers, 6 Piping Plovers, a Long-billed Dowitcher, 224 Red Knots, 820 Sanderlings, 2342 Dunlin, 3 Western Sandpipers, a White-rumped Sandpiper, and 20 Snow Buntings.
Birds seen at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 3 American Golden-Plovers, 2 Purple Sandpipers, 7 Pomarine Jaegers, 86 Dovekies, 68 Razorbills, 400 Bonaparte’s Gulls, a Little Gull, an Iceland Gull, 3 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 3 Northern Fulmar, 800 Great Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters, 11 Manx Shearwaters, and 5500 Northern Gannets.
Other sightings around the Cape included a late possible Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Falmouth, a Short-eared Owl and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, 3 Black Vultures over Barnstable, 12 Marbled Godwits and a Whimbrel continuing at Forest Beach in Chatham, a Black-and-white Warbler at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary, and 2 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].