Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

A Painted Bunting visited a yard in Cummaquid on the 28th. The Spotted Towhee continued at the Provincetown Airport this week. A continuing Prairie Warbler and [...]

The Cape’s second-ever record of Spotted Towhee was found at the Provincetown Airport on the 16^th. A very rare Pine Grosbeak, two White-winged Crossbills and a late Prairie Warbler were also seen there this week. [...]

A Cave Swallow was on Morris Island in Chatham on the 24th. The Spotted Towhee, Western Tanager, Pine Grosbeak, and up to three Evening Grosbeaks all continued at various point [...]

A Summer Tanager was reported from Wellfleet on the 11^th. Masses of Cory’s Shearwaters were in the bay this week, with many counts of hundreds from places like Barnstable Harbor, First Encounter in Eastham, Race Point, and Provincetown Harbor. [...]

A Western Tanager was discovered at a private home in Provincetown over the weekend. Birds from Race Point in Provincetown this week included a King Eider, a Harlequin Duck, 200 Black-bellied Plovers, [...]

A Fork-tailed Flycatcher was seen and photographed in Chatham between October 16 and 20 but was not reported util it had been gone several days. This was the 7th Cape Cod record of this South American flycatcher. A Western Tanager was found [...]

A Gray Kingbird was seen at Fort Hill and later Nauset Light Beach in Eastham this week, representing just the second record for Cape Cod. Elsewhere in Eastham, a Painted Bunting was reported [...]

A Vermilion Flycatcher, just the 6th state record, was seen on the 8th at South Cape Beach in Mashpee but has not been relocated since. A Western Kingbird continued at Peterson Farm in Falmouth [...]

A Western Kingbird was found at Peterson Farm in Falmouth on Tuesday. A Common Gallinule continued at Mill Pond in Chatham this week. The long-staying Brown Pelican was last reported on the 2nd, [...]