Recent bird sightings as reported to the Massachusetts Audubon Society:

►Plum Island: Reports from the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge include small numbers of Cory’s and great shearwaters, Wilson’s storm petrels, a least bittern, two yellow-crowned night herons, a bald eagle, 16 lesser yellowlegs, 85 semipalmated sandpipers, 225 short-billed dowitchers, two roseate terns, five willow flycatchers, a red-breasted nuthatch, two seaside sparrows, and 22 bobolinks.

►North Shore: Whale watching trips are reporting modest to good numbers of Cory’s great and sooty shearwaters, as well as Wilson’s storm petrels.

►Cape Cod: Good numbers of shearwaters and storm petrels have been recorded east of Chatham, so this is a fine time to take a whale watching cruise or one of the other offshore birding opportunities available right now.

►Miscellaneous: Ring-necked duck and a great cormorant at Horn Pond in Woburn; a belated report of 10 black-bellied whistling ducks in Sandwich; a yellow-crowned night heron in Gloucester; a common gallinule at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord; two upland sandpipers near Blue Hills Reservation in Milton; a family of merlins in Worcester; six common ravens in Plymouth; four Louisiana waterthrushes at Willard Brook State Forest in Townsend; an American bittern and sandhill cranes at Burrage Pond Wildlife Management Area in Hanson; and two blue grosbeaks at the Cumberland Farms fields in Middleborough.

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