Cape Cod Weekly Bird Sightings

A Common Gallinule was at Mill Pond in Chatham this week. Single Prothonotary Warblers, exceptionally rare in fall, were seen in Mashpee and South Monomoy this week. A Brown Pelican [...]

An unconfirmed Eurasian Kestrel was described from the dunes of Provincetown on Monday. A Brown Pelican continued various places around Wellfleet and Eastham this week, including Great Island [...]

A Loggerhead Shrike was at Forest Beach in Chatham on the 11th and 12th. A Brown Pelican has been spotted various places including the bay side of Wellfleet [...]

Birds at Race Point in Provincetown this week included a Caspian Tern, a Sabine’s Gull, a Pacific Loon, 9 Whimbrels, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 150 Roseate Terns, [...]

A Brown Booby was seen at Race Point in Provincetown on the 28th, and other reports from the Race this week included a Pacific Loon, 4 Red Knots, 2 Whimbrels, [...]

A Wood Stork was found in a recently cleared area along the Hering River in Wellfleet over the weekend, representing just the third Cape Cod record of this species. A Hooded Warbler [...]

A Swallow-tailed Kite was reported at Santuit Pond in Mashpee this week and a Mississippi Kite was reported from Harwich. Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included [...]

An Atlantic Puffin and 3 Long-tailed Jaegers were seen at Race Point in Provincetown over the weekend along with a Pacific Loon, a Black Tern, 315 Roseate Terns, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 400 Wilson’s Storm-Petrels, 17 Cory’s Shearwaters, 75 Great Shearwaters, [...]

Two Swallow-tailed Kites were reported in Forestdale this week and a single bird was seen in East Sandwich. A breeding plumage Pacific Loon was off Coast Guard Beach [...]