Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 13, 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 7 and October 13, 2026.

A Lark Bunting was discovered in Eastham this week.

The Crested Caracara was not seen at Duck Harbor in Wellfleet this week, but one was seen flying west past Red River Beach in Harwich on Saturday.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Blue-winged Teal, 3 American Wigeon, 4 Northern Pintail, 3 Green-winged Teal, 4 American Golden-Plovers, 2 White-rumped Sandpipers, 12 Parasitic Jaegers, 45 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, an Iceland Gull, 700 Common Terns, a Roseate Tern, 12 Wilson’s Storm Petrels, 700 Cory’s Shearwaters, 75 Great Shearwaters, 45 Manx Shearwaters, and 300 Northern Gannets.

Birds reported from the southern end of Stellwagen Bank and Race Point waters included a Green-winged Teal, 280 Surf Scoters, 1800 White-winged Scoters, 100 Black Scoters, a Long-tailed Jaeger, a Pomarine Jaeger, 14 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 11 Leach’s Storm-Petrels, 200 Manx Shearwaters, and a Bald Eagle.

Lingering Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were seen in Sandwich, Barnstable, Brewster, and Harwich, and other sightings around the Cape included single Common Nighthawks in Falmouth and Harwich, 5 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in West Barnstable, 24 Willets and 2 Whimbrels in South Chatham, aa Gray-cheeked Thrush on South Monomoy island in Chatham, a Mourning Warbler and a Snow Bunting at First Encounter Beach in Eastham, 17 Caspian Terns at Fort Hill in Eastham, and a Black-billed Cuckoo 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].