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 January 4 and January 10, 2023.

A Western Tanager was found along the bike path at Scusset Beach State Park this week. Another continues at a feeder in West Barnstable. A Rusty Blackbird was also photographed at Scusset.

Both a Tufted Duck and a Tufted Duck x scaup hybrid have been on Hinckley’s Pond in Harwich, and the Western Grebe continues on Mashpee-Wakeby Pond, along with 3 Canvasbacks and 8 Redheads.

Painted Buntings are visiting feeders in Sandwich and Orleans and an out-of-season Rose-breasted Grosbeak has been visiting a feeder in Wellfleet.

Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a Pacific Loon, another late Great Shearwater, 9 Common Murres, and 240 Razorbills.

Other sightings around the Cape included a Great Egret and two Eastern Phoebes in Falmouth, single Orange-crowned Warblers in Mashpee and West Barnstable, a Glaucous Gull at Sandy Neck in Barnstable, 5 Long-billed Dowitchers and 3 Killdeer continuing in Centerville, a Semipalmated Plover and a Black-headed Gull continuing in Hyannis, an American Woodcock in Barnstable Village, a Thick-billed Murre in Yarmouth, a Snowy Egret in West Dennis, 4 Pomarine Jaegers at Skaket Beach in Orleans, single American Bitterns in Eastham and Orleans, flocks of up to 12 Red Crossbills several locations, and single Short-eared Owls in Eastham and Barnstable.