Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, September 23, 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 September 17 and September 23, 2025.

A Yellow-headed Blackbird was seen in Truro on Sunday, and a Eurasian Whimbrel was seen on private property in West Dennis last week.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, a Scopoli’s Shearwater, a Black Guillemot, 2 Caspian Terns, a late Least Tern, 3400 Common Terns, a Sabine’s Gull, 29 Parasitic Jaegers, 200 Cory’s Shearwaters, 68 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, and 130 Manx Shearwaters.

Sightings offshore on Stellwagen Bank this week included a Northern Fulmar, a Leach’s Storm-Petrel, 3 Pomarine Jaegers, and an American Pipit.

Birds on South Monomoy island in Chatham included 15 Blue-winged Teal, 14 Green-winged Teal, a Lesser Scaup, a Ruddy Duck, an American Coot, and 2 Pied-billed Grebes.

Sightings from Sandy Neck beach in Barnstable on Monday included 225 Black-bellied Plovers, 350 Semipalmated Plovers, 5 Piping Plovers, 16 Red Knots, 325 Sanderlings, 55 Dunlin, 150 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 7 Least Terns, 35 Forster’s Terns, 15 Roseate Terns, and 5000 Tree Swallows.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Hooded Warbler and a Connecticut Warbler in Mashpee, a Glossy Ibis in Hyannis, an American Goshawk at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, an Alder Flycatcher and a Connecticut Warbler at Wings Island in Brewster, and a White-crowned Sparrow 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].