Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Ipswich: Several of the highlights noted during the holiday week included a greater white-fronted goose in the fields off Argilla Road.

Marshfield: An American white pelican observed in flight over the Daniel Webster Sanctuary .

Hingham: A rufous hummingbird visiting a feeder.

South Dartmouth: The continued presence of a Townsend’s solitaire at Demarest Lloyd State Park was noted, along with 12 great egrets and a black-headed gull.

Wakefield: A cattle egret and a black-throated gray warbler were seen in the vicinity of the Lakeside Cemetery.

Plum Island: Two bald eagles, a rough-legged hawk, two peregrine falcons, a semipalmated plover, a very late stilt sandpiper, three white-rumped sandpipers, a snowy owl, and two short-eared owls were sighted at the Parker River Refuge.

Saugus: A Wilson’s snipe, three short-eared owls, a peregrine falcon, two American pipits, a lapland longspur, three snow buntings, and an Eastern meadowlark were reported at Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary.

Braintree: A pied-billed grebe, a great cormorant, 150 ring-necked ducks, a barrow’s goldeneye, and 37 hooded mergansers were spotted in the vicinity of Great Pond Reservoir and Sunset Lake.

Miscellaneous: Reports featured a king eider at Winthrop Beach in Winthrop; a barrow’s goldeneye on the Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham; a late osprey in Wayland; three snowy owls at Duxbury Beach; an orange-crowned warbler at Fresh Pond in Cambridge; and a late blackpoll warbler in Plymouth

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