Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 28, 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 22 and 28, 2025.

An American White Pelican flew over Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay sanctuary on the 24^th.

A Lark Sparrow was banded at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge on Monday.

A possible Western Warbling Vireo was reported from Mass Audubon’s Long Pasture sanctuary in Barnstable over the weekend, and other reports there included 50 Forster’s Terns, a White-eyed Vireo, 5 Orange-crowned Warblers, and a Magnolia Warbler.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Red-necked Phalarope, a Black-headed Gull, 2 Little Gulls, 300 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 45 Forster’s Terns, 1000 Common Terns, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, 2 Pomarine Jaegers, 4 Razorbills, a Black Guillemot, 265 Cory’s Shearwaters, 3 Great Shearwaters, a Manx Shearwater, and 20 American Pipits.

Other sightings around the Cape included a White-eyed Vireo in Brewster, a Snowy Egret at Wellfleet Bay sanctuary plus another in Provincetown, and a Glossy Ibis and an American Bittern at High Head 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].