Weekly Bird Report

The Weekly Bird Report with Mark Faherty can be heard every Wednesday on WCAI, the local NPR station for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the South Coast. Mark has been the Science Coordinator at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary since August 2007 and has led birding trips for Mass Audubon since 2002. He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and current member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.

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Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 3 minutes
Episodes: 33
Years Active: 2025

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The changing soundscape of early May

While the turn of the calendar to May brings an avalanche of phenological change to yards and woods, maybe none is so obvious, and welcome, as the change in the morning soundscape.

00:04:13 | Wed 07 May 2025

The kites are back

It’s not even May, and the “Swallow-tailed Kite triangle” of Cape Cod is already popping off with early sightings. There were no fewer than five reports of this improbably graceful hawk over the last…

00:03:43 | Wed 30 Apr 2025

New arrivals are coming every day

Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite garden accessory, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Quite a few have been reported already, with the first sighted back on the 17th in Brewster.

00:04:23 | Wed 23 Apr 2025

Rare birds in a secret location

It’s a classic birding bummer — sometimes a rare bird comes to light too late for birders to see it, to the chagrin of those who missed out.

00:04:57 | Wed 16 Apr 2025

A visit from a Pacific Loon

On Sunday, a rare bird was discovered on Great Pond in Eastham, driving local birders loony. This unassuming gray and white waterbird was in the wrong kind of water in the wrong town on the wrong coa…

00:03:48 | Wed 09 Apr 2025

When Florida comes to Cape Cod

This year it turned out that, as I was heading to Florida, Florida was heading to Cape Cod. As soon as I got down there I saw the rare bird alert from back home blowing up with Florida birds, most of…

00:03:40 | Wed 02 Apr 2025

The return of the Ospreys

March may come in like a lion, but around here it goes out on the crooked wings of an Osprey.

00:04:13 | Wed 26 Mar 2025

Shorebirds of early spring

They’re baaaaack! Here on the cusp of astronomical spring, those adorable little beach goers that certain people love to hate have arrived, or at least the first few scouts have. Piping Plovers have …

00:04:08 | Wed 19 Mar 2025

Sights and sounds of early "spring"

00:04:12 | Wed 12 Mar 2025

The eagle nest has landed

When Bald Eagles took over an Osprey nest on the Outer Cape two years ago it meant that, for the first time since the 1800s out here, the eagle had landed.

00:04:06 | Wed 05 Mar 2025

A visiting bird worth watching

A lanky and mysterious stranger arrived in Provincetown last week, where he is often seen loitering near the famous Boy Beach at the west end. Flamboyantly arrayed in feathers, this visitor has devel…

00:03:59 | Wed 26 Feb 2025

A birding activity you can do while staying warm

As I write on this coldest day of the season thus far, it seems wise to discuss an indoor birding activity almost universally enjoyed by bird fanciers – backyard bird feeding.

00:04:11 | Wed 19 Feb 2025

A rare visitor from Europe

I thought it might have been a female Ring-necked Duck, but a view through my spotting scope showed the characteristic cowlick of a female Tufted Duck, a rare visitor from Europe.

00:04:06 | Wed 12 Feb 2025

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