Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 21, 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 15 and 21, 2025.

A Townsend’s Warbler was banded at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary on the 16th.

A Common Gallinule was found at Mill Pond in Falmouth on the 19th.

Two Sandhill Cranes and a Eurasian Wigeon were seen at South Monomoy this week, where other sightings included 16 Northern Pintail, 13,500 White-winged Scoters, 900 Surf Scoters, 600 Black Scoters, and a Long-billed Dowitcher.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included 2 Sandhill Cranes, a Purple Sandpiper, 6 Razorbills, a Little Gull, a Black Guillemot, 2 Red-necked Grebes, 700 Cory’s Shearwaters, 60 Great Shearwaters, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 8 Manx Shearwaters, 1800 Northern Gannets, 2 Merlins, and 7 American Pipits.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Leach’s Storm-Petrel in Sandwich, a Black-billed Cuckoo at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary and another elsewhere in Wellfleet, and a Rusty Blackbird, 3 Orange-crowned Warblers and 2 Dickcissels at Pochet Island in Orleans.

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].