Cape Cod Bird Sightings — Tuesday, September 30, 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 24 and September 30, 2025.

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown included a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 3 American Golden-Plovers, an American Bittern, a Black Guillemot, 5 White-rumped Sandpipers, 11 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Black Skimmers, 48 Cory’s Shearwaters, 12 Great Shearwaters, 11 Manx Shearwaters, and a Dickcissel.

Landbird migrants elsewhere in Provincetown included a Lark Sparrow, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, and a Connecticut Warbler at the airport and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 18 Blue-headed Vireos, 2 Warbling Vireos, 23 White-throated Sparrows, 12 Eastern Towhees, 4 Baltimore Orioles, 4 Nashville Warblers, 17 American Redstarts, 5 Black-throated Blue Warblers, and 11 Black-throated Green Warblers at the Beech Forest.

Reports from High Head in North Truro included a Pectoral Sandpiper, an American-Golden Plover, a Philadelphia Vireo, a Yellow-throated Vireo, and a Connecticut Warbler.

Sightings at Chapin Beach in Dennis included 5 Black Skimmers, 375 Black-bellied Plovers, 42 Red Knots, 700 Sanderlings, and 150 Forster’s Terns.

Other sightings around the Cape included a late Least Tern at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, a Black Vulture in West Barnstable, and 2 Caspian Terns in Wellfleet Harbor.

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].