Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

Highlights this past week included the continuing presence of a barnacle goose in Westfield, a cackling goose at Wards Field in Sharon, a tufted duck at Great Quittacas Pond in Lakeville, a brown pelican reported at both Scusset Beach in Bourne and Sandy Neck in Barnstable, a Townsend’s solitaire and a clay-colored sparrow at Demarest Lloyd State Park in South Dartmouth, a yellow-throated warbler in Nahant, and a summer tanager at Scusset Beach in Bourne.

►Plum Island: Highlights at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge included 50 northern pintails, 60 red-throated loons, a rough-legged hawk, five greater yellowlegs, five white-rumped sandpipers, a pectoral sandpiper, a lesser black-backed gull, and a yellow-bellied sapsucker.

►Squantum: Five greater yellowlegs, two common ravens, an American tree sparrow, and five fox sparrows were spotted.

►Nantucket: Reports included a white-eyed vireo, 16 tree swallows, a rose-breasted grosbeak, and an indigo bunting.

►Miscellaneous: Reports were highlighted by a black scoter and a barrow’s goldeneye at Great Pond in Randolph; another barrow’s goldeneye at Sudbury Reservoir in Framingham; 60 common mergansers in Lynnfield; 500 ruddy ducks at South Watuppa Pond in Fall River; a lesser black-backed gull in Sharon; a glaucous gull in Gloucester; a yellow-billed cuckoo and an indigo buntingin Brookline; a black guillemot in Cohasset; a snowy owl at Gate 37 at the Quabbin Reservoir; three to five short-eared owls at the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleborough; three white-eyed vireos at Gooseberry Neck in Westport and another one at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge; a blue-gray gnatcatcher at Manomet; a clay-colored sparrow at the Barrett’s Mill fields in Concord; and five indigo buntings at Lane’s Farm in Gloucester.

For more information about bird sightings or to report sightings, call the Massachusetts Audubon Society at 781-259-8805 or go to www.mass-audubon.org.