Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings
Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, November 4, 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 October 29 and November 4, 2025.
A Brown Booby was found at both Corporation Beach and Sesuit Harbor in Dennis over the weekend and was still present as of at least Monday. Three Leach’s Storm-Petrels were also seen at Corporation.
A Tufted Duck was found at Herring Pond in Eastham on the 4th, and a seawatch at nearby First Encounter Beach on the same day tallied 6 Red-necked Phalaropes, 84 Cory’s Shearwaters, 3 Great Shearwaters, 3 Manx Shearwaters, and 1580 Northern Gannets.
A Black-headed Gull and 4 Little Gulls were at Ridgevale Beach in Chatham on the 30th.
Five Cattle Egrets were at the Sandwich end of the Cape Cod Canal, along with a reported Dovekie and a Harlequin Duck.
Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, 2 Little Gulls, 3 American Wigeon, 18 Green-winged Teal, a Parasitic Jaeger, a Pomarine Jaeger, 7 Razorbills, a Common Murre, 120 Bonaparte’s Gulls, an Iceland Gull, 4 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 45 Cory’s Shearwaters, 6 Great Shearwaters, a Manx Shearwater, 400 Northern Gannets, an American Kestrel, a Merlin, 4 Common Ravens, 500 Tree Swallows, and 20 Snow Buntings.
Other sightings around the Cape included a Snowy Egret in Falmouth, a Willet in Harwich, a White-eyed Vireo in Brewster, a Whimbrel and 53 American Oystercatchers in Chatham, and 2 Evening Grosbeaks in North Truro.
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].