Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

A Rufous Hummingbird was banded at Wing Island in Brewster this week, a rare summer record for the eastern US for this species of the mountain west. A Mississippi Kite and a Swallow-tailed Kite were seen in Sandwich at different times over the last week. A Black-headed Gull and an Atlantic Puffin were seen at Race Point in Provincetown, [...]

At least 2 Swallow-tailed Kites continue in the Cotuit area this week. A Brown Booby and an Atlantic Puffin were seen at Race Point in Provincetown, where other sightings this week included a Pomarine Jaeger, 2500 Common Terns, 200 Roseate Terns, 130 Cory’s Shearwaters, 57 Great Shearwaters, 3 Sooty Shearwaters, and 12 Manx Shearwaters. Surveys of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge tallied [...]

At least one Swallow-tailed Kite continues in the Cotuit area this week. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Black Guillemot, a Black Scoter, 22 Piping Plovers, 3 Whimbrel., 1000 Common Terns, 65 Roseate Terns, 80 Cory’s Shearwaters, 9 Great Shearwaters, [...]

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown this week included 14 Piping Plovers, a Black Guillemot, 2 Parasitic Jaegers, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 Black Terns, 500 Roseate Terns, 1900 Common Terns, an Arctic Tern, 40 Wilson’s Storm-Petrel, 300 Cory’ Shearwaters, [...]

A Brown Booby was again seen at Race Point in Provincetown this week. Other sightings at Race Point included a Common Murre, a Little Gull, a Glaucous Gull, 2 Arctic Terns, and a Leach’s Storm-Petrel. Six Swallow-tailed Kites continue near the Cotuit Center [...]

A Brown Booby passed Race Point in Provincetown on Saturday. Other sightings at Race Point included a surprise Atlantic Puffin flyby, a Little Gull, a Black Tern, a Glaucous Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 24 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, [...]

At least three Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee and around Cotuit where there were multiple sightings of up to three again this week. Three Mississippi Kites were back in the Centerville neighborhood where they had been feeding on cicadas for a few weeks, [...]

Amazingly, a White Ibis was found eating cicadas around the parking lot of Mashpee High School on the 20th, representing just the second-ever June record for New England. A rare Say’s Phoebe from the western US was photographed at Bourne Farm in Falmouth, one of just a handful of June/July records [...]

Swallow-tailed Kites continue to be seen near Santuit Pond in Mashpee, but only singletons were seen this week unlike the 3-5 seen in previous weeks. There are now at least three Mississippi Kites hanging around a neighborhood in Centerville eating cicadas. A Hooded Warbler was found at Long Pond in Falmouth on Tuesday. Birds at Crane Wildlife Management Area in Falmouth included 3 Blue Grosbeaks, [...]