Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, October 7, 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 1 and 7, 2025.

A Bell’s Vireo was banded at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge last week.

A Common Gallinule was at Santuit Pond in Mashpee as recently as the 4th. Other birds at Santuit included a Blue-winged Teal, a Northern Pintail, 3 Red-shouldered Hawks, a Winter Wren, and a Chestnut-sided Warbler.

A Summer Tanager was at Fort Hill in Eastham on the 3rd.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Sabine’s Gull, 5 White-rumped Sandpipers, 4 Parasitic Jaegers, 2 Pomarine Jaegers, 3 Black-legged Kittiwakes, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 250 Cory’s Shearwaters, 500 Great Shearwaters, 230 Manx Shearwaters, a Merlin, a Peregrine Falcon, 2 Northern Harriers, 12 American Pipits, a Clay-colored Sparrow, a White-crowned Sparrow, and a Dickcissel.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Black Vulture in Bourne, a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in West Barnstable, an American Coot at Monomoy NWR, a Mourning Warbler banded at Wing Island in Brewster, 2 Caspian Terns in Wellfleet Harbor, a Little Blue Heron at Duck Harbor in Wellfleet, and an Audubon’s Yellow-rumped Warbler 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].